Hospital bed with graphical user interface having advanced functionality

• Main Authors: TALLENT, DAN R, FLINT, STEPHEN CARLYLE, CRANE, MATTHEW W, ALLEN, JAMES MAURICE, KENDALL, BRIAN J, ZERHUSEN, ROBERT MARK, HUSTER, KEITH A, PITTENGER, WILLIAM G
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 11.04.2012
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; COMPUTING; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; COUNTING; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; FUNERAL DEVICES; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; PHYSICS; REGULATING; SURGERY; TRANSPORT OR ACCOMODATION FOR PATIENTS

A patient support apparatus, such as a hospital bed, communicates with an electronic medical record (EMR) system in healthcare facility. The hospital bed includes a patient support structure to support a patient, a graphical user interface coupled to the patient support structure, and control circuitry coupled to the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface displays at least one input that may be used by a caregiver to chart data into an electronic medical record (EMR) of a patient supported by the patient support structure.