Patent ID: 9652960
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G08B,G16H

Claim:
1. A method for routing a medical alert to a selected staff member in a hospital, the method comprising receiving first alert signal generated by an alert generation device carried by, connected to, or in the vicinity of a patient, obtaining the current location and identity of multiple staff members from a location tracking system configured to track the locations of the multiple staff members, upon receiving the first alert signal, determining which staff members of the multiple staff members are available to respond to the alert, including determining that a current location of a particular staff member matches a room within the hospital designated in a database as unavailable, and classifying the particular staff member as unavailable in response to the determination that the current location matches the room designated in the database as unavailable, selecting from the multiple suitable staff members a selected staff member that is available to respond to the alert type and by at least determining that the distance between a location of the alert generation device and the location of the selected staff member is shorter than the distance between the location of the alert generation device and the location of at least one of the multiple suitable staff members other than the selected staff member that is also available to respond, sending a second alert signal to an individually addressable mobile device associated with the selected staff member; selecting, from a list of multiple output devices and associated locations stored in the database or a different database, a selected output device closest to the location of the alert generation device; and sending a message to the selected output device for rendition to the patient.