Patient room and bed management apparatus and system

摘要

A patient room and bed management apparatus and system detects changes in a patient's status and updates the status of a room of a healthcare facility associated with the patient. The system may receive the patient status information from a remote system, such as a health information system used by a healthcare facility. The patient room and bed management system may determine one or more actions to be performed by a bed in the patient's room. The system may determine one or more actions to be performed by a caregiver or other staff person of the healthcare facility. The actions to be performed by the bed or staff person may be triggered by a change in status of the patient, the patient's bed, or the patient's room. The actions to be performed may be electronically communicated to the bed, to one or more remote displays, and/or to communication devices associated with staff persons of the healthcare facility.;The patient room and bed management apparatus and system may include a user interface module that is not mounted to the patient's bed. A list of actions to be performed by a staff person in the patient's room, the status of the patient, the status of the patient's room, and/or the status of the patient's bed, may be displayed and updated electronically at the user interface module. The user interface module may also provide bed controls that allow a staff person to initiate an electronically-controlled function of the bed from the user interface module.

主权项

1. A bed system comprising
a bed having a plurality of electronically-controllable functions and a bed identifier, and a bed control system connected to the bed and configured to control one or more of the electronically-controllable functions of the bed, the bed controller comprising memory in which data and computer-executable instructions are stored, a communications interface configured to couple the bed system to a health information system of a healthcare facility, and processor circuitry configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to receive via the communications interface a patient status signal representative of patient status information from the health information system, the patient status information indicating a status of a patient in the healthcare facility, and send a control signal to the bed to cause the bed to automatically without user intervention initiate one of the electronically-controlled functions performed by the bed in response to the patient status signal; wherein the patient status signal includes an admission, discharge and transfer (ADT) indicator, the bed has a built-in weigh scale, and the bed zeros the weigh scale in response to the patient status signal.