Patent ID: 9507915
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G16H

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing alert messages generated by an event notification system, comprising: detecting, at a patient monitor associated with a patient, a clinical event instance and sending a clinical event message to the event notification system; parsing information in the clinical event message to detect a unique identity of the patient monitor and a time at which the clinical event instance is detected, and using a first map structure to determine a physical location of the patient monitor; detecting, at a tag detector comprising a real-time location system, the presence of a tag associated with a caregiver and detecting a time at which the tag is detected, and sending a tag message to the event notification system; parsing information in the tag message to determine an identity of the tag detector and to identify the time at which the tag is detected by the tag detector, and using a second map structure to determine a current physical location of the tag that the caregiver is associated with; comparing, at the event notification system, the current physical location of the tag and the time at which the tag is detected to the location of the patient monitor and the time at which the clinical event instance is detected, and determining that the caregiver is attending to the patient if the current tag location is proximate to the location of the patient monitor at the time that the clinical event instance is detected; and controlling the event notification system to not generate and send an alert message to a communication device currently worn by the caregiver.