Patent ID: 7761310

Claim:
In a healthcare facility system that includes a plurality of patients, staff members and visitors who interact so as to provide care and wellness for the patients, a computer comprising a processor and system memory, and detection devices used to monitor the positions of patients, staff, and visitors at the healthcare facility, a method for monitoring quality and performance at the facility comprising: the computer accessing, from among a plurality of patient, staff members and visitor profiles that differ as between at least some of the patients, staff members and visitors at the facility, a profile corresponding to a patient at the facility, the patient profile containing static data and also dynamic data relating to one or more individual behaviors of the patient, the dynamic data relating to limits and alarms that are continuously or periodically updated or refined based on information learned about the patient and/or a changing patient need or requirement; the computer identifying one or more quality or performance parameters for the patient based on data contained in the patient profile, wherein the one or more quality or performance parameters includes at least one of: preventing unassisted bed exiting, measuring total ambulation of a patient in a given time period, exercises, ensuring proper denture use, identifying periodic bed rolling for bed bound patients to prevent bed sores, responding to patient initiating emergency calls, preventing or mitigating patient harm, assessing the level of patient socialization with others, ensuring proper nutrition, detecting breathing sounds, coughs, or choking that may be indicative of impaired respiratory function, and ensuring that patient ambulation occurs in association with prescribed assistive devices; the computer determining one or more predetermined locations for the patient relative to one or more predetermined locations for at least one of another patient, a staff member, a visitor, an asset, or a fixed location that are predictive of completion or satisfaction of the one or more quality or performance parameters for the patient; the detection devices tracking one or more actual locations of the patient relative to one or more actual locations of the at least one of another patient, a staff member, a visitor, an asset, or a fixed location; the computer comparing the one or more actual locations of the patient relative to the one or more actual locations of the at least one of another patient, a staff member, a visitor, an asset, or a fixed location with the one or more predetermined locations for the patient relative to the one or more predetermined locations for the at least one of another patient, staff member, a visitor, an asset, or a fixed location; and the computer determining whether the one or more quality or performance parameters for the patient were completed or satisfied.