Patent ID: 11955129
Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a personal assistant device associated with a location of a patient in a healthcare facility and having a listening component and a speaker, the personal assistant device being configured to receive verbal requests for information from a user and to audibly provide responses to received verbal requests;
one or more processors in communication with the personal assistant device and an electronic healthcare information system; and
one or more computer-readable media storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
receive a verbal utterance from a user via the listening component of the personal assistant device associated with the location of the patient;
determine the verbal utterance satisfies a threshold level of criticality;
capture, using a camera, image data;
predict, based on the image data, that the patient and/or an authorized proxy is in a field of view of a camera;
determine, based on the prediction and/or the determination that the verbal utterance satisfies a predetermined threshold level of criticality, that a predetermined criterion is satisfied; and
initiate an action generating a digital alert to at least one member of a healthcare team associated with the patient with the level of criticality and a phrase contained in the verbal utterance.