Bed management

• Main Authors: GLIDEWELL, PATRICIA ANNE, ALLEN, JAMES MAURICE, RILEY, CARL WILLIAM, HUSTER, KEITH A, COLLINS, WILLIAMS F. JR
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 12.03.2014
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

A computing device (214, 216, 218), system (101), method (300) and machine readable medium for managing beds (140) of a healthcare facility (110) is provided. A system (101) includes a client device (218) and a server computing device (214). The client device (218) may generate a request to assign a bed (140) to a patient, present a list of beds (140) to assign the patient, and receive a selection that identifies a bed (140) of the list of beds (140). The server computing device (214) may generate the list of beds (140) presented by the client device (218) in response to the request. The server computing device (214) may retrieve an electronic medical record for the patient, and obtain healthcare attributes for the patient from the electronic medical record. The server computing device (214) may generate the list based upon capabilities of a plurality of beds (140) and the healthcare attributes of the patient retrieved from the electronic medical record. The server computing device (214) may further assign to the patient the bed (140) identified by the selection.