Distributed healthcare communication system

摘要

A graphical audio station of a nurse call system is operable to permit a user to perform one or more of the following functions: establish a two-way voice communication link with another computer device in another patient and/or with a another computer device located in another staff work area and/or with a wireless communication device carried by caregiver and/or with a telephone of the healthcare facility; broadcast a voice page to a group of other selected computer devices; compose and send a text message to a portable device that is carried by a caregiver and that has wireless communication capability; browse web pages and/or view multimedia content, such as videos, hosted on servers of the healthcare facility and/or that are accessible via the Internet; view and/or acknowledge and/or answer and/or cancel alerts or nurse calls originating in a plurality of patient rooms.

主权项

1. A healthcare communication system for use in a healthcare facility having a plurality of patient rooms, the healthcare communication system comprising:
a plurality of graphical audio stations, each of the patient rooms having at least one of the plurality of graphical audio stations located therein, each graphical audio station being operable to display a list of nurse calls for the room in which the graphical audio station is located and for other rooms, and a master station communicatively coupled to each of the graphical audio stations, each of the plurality of graphical audio stations having a graphical display screen that is operable to display user inputs that are usable to conduct a search for a location within the healthcare facility of a specific caregiver.