Patent ID: 7962544

Claim:
A healthcare system for determining information provided to a healthcare worker in response to received location dependent context data, comprising: a proximity detector for wirelessly detecting presence of an identification tag attached to a healthcare worker substantially within a predetermined vicinity of said detector; a location detector for determining location information indicating a location associated with an identification tag attached to said healthcare worker detected by said proximity detector and for identifying at least one patient associated with said healthcare worker in the vicinity of the determined location from predetermined information associating patients with geographic location; a workflow processor for automatically adaptively selecting tasks to be performed by said healthcare worker associated with the identified at least one patient and presenting information to said healthcare worker identifying the selected tasks in a task sequence to be performed by said healthcare worker for the identified at least one patient in response to the detection of said identification tag attached to said healthcare worker; and a user interface for automatically presenting display images including medical information of the identified at least one patient in response to the detection of said identification tag attached to said healthcare worker.