Systems and methods for monitoring caregiver and patient protocol compliance

摘要

A system and methods is provided for facilitating, monitoring and recording caregiver and patient compliance with established hospital hand hygiene protocols. The system comprises a 3-D imaging and monitoring assembly and an optional intelligent programmable monitor/sanitizer. Three dimensional imagery tracks a caregiver's movements and location while generating a representative image value. Information acquired by the imaging system determines the proximity of a caregiver to the patient and/or contamination source and determines if the sanitizers provided have been utilized and if so, at an appropriate time and distance from the patient per hospital protocol. While being monitored, a representative Avatar based on physical characteristics derived from three dimensional images of the caregiver and patient may be generated so as to maintain anonymity of both unless a violation of institutional protocol occurs which may be forensically recorded in real-time for analysis.

主权项

1. A method for monitoring protocol compliance comprising:
capturing a three dimensional image of one or more select persons within a monitored area via that imaging system; generating feature vectors uniquely associated with the physical features within those images of the one or more select persons; creating an avatar from the one or more select person's feature vectors of the one or more selected persons as representative; creating an identify image value representing that avatar; associating and encoding those image values to an identification monitor associated with that one or more persons; and comparing the image value of that person with that image value of the identification monitor thereby determining if that person enters a monitored area or contacts a specified imaged object thereby changing the status of the person.