Patent ID: 9697715
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G08B,G16H,G16Z,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for scheduling a move of a patient in a medical facility, the method comprising: (a) securing an electronic identification tag to a plurality of patients at a medical facility; (b) periodically interrogating, utilizing readers disposed at various locations throughout the medical facility, the identification tags secured to the patients to continuously monitor the location of each of the plurality of patients; (c) receiving, at a server, an order for a first patient of the plurality of patients to be moved to a destination location within the medical facility, the order including an appointment time at which the patient is to be at the destination location; (d) determining, at the server based on a most recent interrogation of the identification tag secured to the first patient, a first most recent tracked location of the first patient; (e) determining, at the server based on the destination location and the first most recent tracked location, a first estimated travel time for the first patient to reach the destination location; (f) determining, at the server based on the first estimated travel time and the appointment time, a pick up time for the order; (g) subsequently, at a time after the determined pick up time, determining, at the server based on a most recent interrogation of the identification tag secured to the first patient, a second most recent tracked location of the first patient; (h) determining, at the server based on the destination location and the second most recent tracked location, an estimated arrival time for the first patient to reach the destination location, and determining that the estimated arrival time is after the appointment time; (i) communicating from the server based on the determination that the estimated arrival time is after the appointment time, an alert indicating that the first patient may be late to arrive at the destination location.