US 12,224,046 B2
System for EMR vitals charting
Stephen Embree, Chapel Hill, NC (US); Douglas A. Seim, Okeana, OH (US); Frederick Collin Davidson, Apex, NC (US); Britten J. Pipher, Raleigh, NC (US); Kenzi Mudge, Raleigh, NC (US); Bradley T. Smith, Raleigh, NC (US); Steven D. Baker, Beaverton, OR (US); Eric Agdeppa, Cincinnati, OH (US); Pamela Wells, Hixson, TN (US); Laura A. Hassey, Raleigh, NC (US); Andrew S. Robinson, Durham, NC (US); and Thomas A. Myers, Syracuse, NY (US)
Assigned to Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US)
Filed by Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/852,762.
Application 17/852,762 is a continuation of application No. 16/535,303, filed on Aug. 8, 2019, granted, now 11,404,149.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/724,752, filed on Aug. 30, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0328151 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2022.01); G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G06F 40/00 (2020.01); G06Q 10/06 (2023.01); G06Q 10/10 (2023.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01)
CPC G16H 10/60 (2018.01) [G10L 15/26 (2013.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G06F 40/00 (2020.01); G06Q 10/06 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A charting system for a healthcare facility, the charting system comprising:
a patient bed to support a patient in a patient room,
a vital sign monitor configured to read at least one vital sign from the patient,
an electronic medical record (EMR) computer communicatively coupled to the vital sign monitor, and
a high accuracy locating system communicatively coupled to the vital sign monitor, the high accuracy locating system including locating transceivers situated throughout the healthcare facility and a caregiver locating tag worn by a caregiver, the caregiver locating tag communicating with one or more of the locating transceivers that are in communicative proximity with the caregiver locating tag, the locating system further including a locating server communicatively coupled to the locating transceivers and operable to determine a location of the caregiver locating tag in the healthcare facility within three feet or less of an actual location of the caregiver locating tag, the locating server being configured to send a first message to the vital sign monitor to start reading the at least one vital sign from the patient in response to detection that the caregiver locating tag has entered the patient room, the locating server being configured to send a second message to the vital sign monitor to transmit vital sign information as read by the vital sign monitor to the EMR computer in response to detection that the caregiver locating tag is within a threshold distance of the patient bed.