Patent ID: 8471899

Claim:
A surveillance device for documenting patient procedures comprising: a surveillance camera for capturing a plurality of video frames of a surveillance area; a patient procedure remote for detecting the presence of a healthcare professional proximate to the surveillance area and in response, generating a procedure indication; and a surveillance control device comprising: a primary nonvolatile memory; a secondary nonvolatile memory; medical procedure remote interface for receiving a procedure indication from the patient procedure remote and generating procedure information from the procedure indication; a video processing unit coupled to the surveillance camera for processing video frames captured by the surveillance camera and storing the processed video frames in the primary nonvolatile memory, and in response to receiving procedure information from the medical procedure remote interface, attaching at least some of the procedure information to the video frames subsequently stored in the primary nonvolatile memory and copying the video frames subsequently stored in the primary nonvolatile memory to the secondary nonvolatile memory; a network controller coupled to a healthcare facility distribution network for obtaining processed video frames from the primary nonvolatile memory and transmitting the processed video frames across the healthcare facility distribution network; and wherein the patient procedure remote includes a legacy interface for receiving generic manual interactions from a healthcare professional that may be correlated to a patient procedure.