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1. A real-time method of controlling healthcare delivery processes within a clinical tracking environment monitored by real-time locating apparatus including auto-ID tags, the method comprising:
providing a predefined, non-adaptive set of rules governing clinical processes to supervise the delivery of healthcare within the environment, wherein the rules are executable based on a combination of location-based event data and subject data values toward the objective of optimal performance of the clinical processes, wherein data derived from auto-ID tags are operated on by the rules and wherein corrective action is indicated by evaluation of such data pursuant to the rules; wirelessly transmitting signals utilizing the auto-ID tags where the signals are informative of one or more of the identity of the wearers, wearer locations, and operating states of the tags; receiving the transmitted wireless signals via a receiver; processing the received wireless signals via a control computer subsystem including at least one processor to obtain real-time event data which represents the locations of mobile auto-ID tag-wearing subjects within the clinical tracking environment and events which occur within the environment; collecting subject data via the control computer subsystem, wherein the subject data is directly or indirectly related to the auto-ID tag-wearing subjects; executing the predefined rules via the control computer subsystem using the most current values of event data and subject data to evaluate the performance of each process within the environment; and performing any necessary corrective action via the control computer subsystem indicated by the rules being evaluated including generating at least one of a signal, an alert, a report and a message, appropriate to the corrective action. |
