Multi-technology wireless communication network network for monitoring patient through-out a healthcare facility

Abstract

A method () for providing continuous wireless connectivity for monitoring a patient throughout a healthcare facility, including: providing () an in-room access point in a room defined at least in part by shielding walls and an access point outside the room and connecting the in-room access point and the access point; (ii) transmitting (), by a communication unit of a first source device, information related to the patient; (iii) receiving (), by the access point outside the room, information from the first source device; (iv) receiving (), by the in-room access point, additional information from the first source device; (v) combining (), the information and the additional information from the first source device to generate a digital data stream; and (vi) transmitting (), by an access point communication unit of the access point system, the digital data stream to an information system of the healthcare facility.