Patent ID: 7555437

Claim:
A method for video documentation of health care of a patient, the method comprising: initiating the health care of said patient by a health care provider; establishing a computer-based health care record for said patient; generally concurrently with said initiation of said health care, said health care provider issuing to said patient a video camera configured for use by said patient and for use by said health care provider to video document said health care of said patient, wherein said video documentation from said issued video camera is added to said computer-based health care record; said video camera including an electronic library of patient care categories and a user input interface for allowing selection of at least one of said patient care categories; setting using at least one processor device a predetermined distance between said patient and said video camera; connecting a monitoring device to said patient; associating using said at least one processor device and a wireless electronic connection said video camera and said monitoring device; monitoring using said at least one processor device the distance between said video camera and said patient; generating an alert using said at least one processor device and an alarm device in the event said video camera is beyond said predetermined distance from said patient; maintaining said connection of said monitoring device to said patient for substantially the duration of said health care of said patient; selecting a patient care category from said electronic library of patient care categories using said user input interface; video documenting said health care of said patient using said video camera; associating said video documentation with said selected patient care category using said user input interface; and updating said video documentation of said health care to said computer-based health care record of said patient.