Patent ID: 9058635
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A method of making patient care messages available to healthcare providers on different shifts, the method comprising: electronically generating a provider assignment user interface for presentation to a user, the provider assignment user interface comprising functionality for the user to assign a patient to a first team of healthcare providers; in response to the patient being assigned to the first team of healthcare providers: in response to the messaging component determining that the student provider failed to respond to the first message, escalating the notification of the task to the supervisory provider; and in response to the messaging component determining that neither the student provider nor the supervisory provider viewed the first message within a selected time frame, notifying, with the messaging component, an originator of the first message that the first message has not been viewed within the selected time frame; wherein the messaging component and the handoff component are implemented by a computer system comprising computer hardware.