Patent ID: 7539623
Filing Date: 2009-05-26
Classification: G06Q,G16H,G16Z

Abstract:
1. A method for providing bed availability information to a user wherein the user identifies an available bed for a patient and further wherein the bed availability information includes information on beds at a plurality of healthcare facilities wherein the plurality of healthcare facilities receives the patient based on the bed availability at one of the plurality of healthcare facilities, the method comprising the steps of: providing a computer network; providing a database connected to the computer network; inputting bed availability information for a plurality of healthcare facilities wherein each of the plurality of healthcare facilities have beds for providing a plurality of types of medical care and further wherein the bed availability information is input into the database and is accessible by the computer network; providing a first access to the database for determining the available bed for the patient by the user of the database; inputting a medical condition of the patient into the database; searching, by a computer in the computer network, the bed availability information for the plurality of healthcare facilities in the database; matching, by the computer in the computer network, the medical condition of the patient in the database to one of the types of medical care to obtain the bed availability information of the plurality of healthcare facilities based on each of the plurality of healthcare facilities having beds for providing one of the types of medical care to treat the medical condition of the patient; and determining, by the computer in the computer network, the available bed in the plurality of healthcare facilities for the patient with the medical condition from the bed availability information based upon the medical condition of the patient in the database.