COORDINATING A MULTI-STEP TASK AMONG ONE OR MORE INDIVIDUALS

摘要

An event notification system (ENS) is in communication with a hospital information system (H.I.S.) over a local network. The hospital information system supports a patient scheduling system, one or more hospital staff call systems and a patient information system. The ENS uses information stored in all of the systems supported by the H.I.S. to coordinate the hospital staffs activities associated with the transportation of a patient from one location to another.

主权项

1. A method for coordinating the performance of a multi-step task, comprising:
entering a task request, by a task requestor, into a task schedule maintained by a scheduling system, the task request comprising information used by an event notification system to generate first and second task request messages having instructions used by an individual in the performance of the multi-step task; sending, by the event notification system, the first task request message to the individual, the first task request message comprising a set of two or more options from which the individual can select in order to perform a first portion of the multi-step task; the individual selecting an option from the set of options comprising the first task request message; detecting, at the event notification system, that an option in the set of two or more options comprising the first task request message is selected, determining that the first portion of the multi-step task is complete and sending a task status message to the task requestor that includes information corresponding to the performance of the selected option; sending, by the event notification system, the second task request message to the individual, the second task request message comprising a set of two or more options from which the individual can select in order to perform a second portion of the multi-step task, at least one of the options in the set of two or more options in the second task request message being different from any of the options in the set of two or more options comprising the first task request message; the individual selecting an option from the set of two or more options comprising the second task request message; and detecting, at the event notification system, that the option is selected from the set of two or options comprising the second task request message, determining that the second portion of the multi-step task is complete and sending a task status message to the task requestor that includes information corresponding to the performance of the selected option.