Patent ID: 8706515

Claim:
A method comprising executing computer implemented instructions performed by one or more processors for providing a message notification associated with real-time care of a patient in a health care environment, the method comprising: receiving, via at least one processor, a message from a source, wherein the message is associated with a voice or data communication to a user; receiving, via at least one processor, location information associated with a plurality of patients; receiving, via at least one processor, patient care information from at least one of the following information systems: an ordering system, a result reporting system, a lab-type system, a pharmacy-type system, a radiology-type system, a transcription-type system, an environmental services-type system, or a transportation-type system; outputting in a geospatial map via a graphical user interface associated with a display mounted in the health care environment the location information associated with the plurality of patients and the patient care information, wherein the geospatial map comprises a scaled map of the health care environment, and a notification of the message from the source, wherein the notification corresponds with message content or retrieval of the message; updating, via at least one processor, the graphical user interface when: (i) a change occurs in the location information associated with at least one of the plurality of patients, (ii) a change occurs in the patient care information and (iii) when a change occurs in the status of the message from the user; receiving a user query that comprises a request to display on the geospatial map via the graphical user interface the location information associated with a subset of the plurality of patients receiving care from a physician in the health care environment based on a particular user role, wherein the particular user role comprises at least one of: (i) a physician, (ii) a nurse or (iii) a health care assistant; receiving, based at least in part on the user query, a query response that comprises the requested location information for each of the one or more patients in the subset; and outputting, in response to the user query, the location information associated with each of the one or more patients in the subset on the geospatial map via the graphical user interface, wherein the location information comprises one or more indicators that are displayed adjacent to one or more patient rooms associated with each of the one or more patients in the subset.