Patent ID: 7627334

Claim:
A method for serving context-relevant information in a healthcare facility, comprising: identifying, by a healthcare information server, a user associated with a wireless information device; determining, by the healthcare information server, that the wireless information device is in a first room in the healthcare facility; determining, by the healthcare information server, that a first person is in the same first room at least in part by querying at least one healthcare database based on the identity of the first room; determining, by the healthcare information server, that a second person is in a second room, wherein the wireless information device is physically closer to the second person than to the first person; selecting, by the healthcare information server, the first person for retrieving and transmitting information associated therewith by comparing the proximity of the first person and the proximity of the second person to the wireless information device and selecting the first person based upon determining that the first person is in the same first room as the wireless information device; determining, by the healthcare information server, that at least one object is located in the first room at least in part by querying the at least one healthcare information database based on the identity of the first room and based on an association of the first room with the first person; retrieving context-relevant content from at least one healthcare database, wherein the context-relevant content comprises information about the first person, information about the first room, and information about the at least one object, wherein the information about the first person comprises at least one of: medication information, diagnosis information, healthcare specialty information, or patient history information; limiting the context-relevant content based at least in part on the identity of the user and user preferences associated with the user and stored in the at least one healthcare database; transmitting the context-relevant content from the healthcare information server to the wireless information device at least part of which is used to automatically generate a presentation to the user via the wireless information device, wherein the presentation comprises the information about the first person, the information about the first room, and the information about the at least one object.