Patent ID: 7949547

Claim:
A method, comprising: sending a wireless signal from a transceiver associated with a patient room number; associating the transceiver and the patient room number to patient identifying information; associating the patient identifying information to an electronic patient chart; receiving a request at the transceiver for the electronic patient chart from a patient room computer system, retrieving the electronic patient chart associated with the transceiver, the patient room number, and the patient identifying information; sending the electronic patient chart from the transceiver to the patient room computer system; automatically displaying the electronic patient chart at the patient room computer system when the wireless signal indicates the patient room computer system enters the patient room number; linking the patient room computer system to a remotely-located primary computer system to simultaneously display the electronic patient chart at both the patient room computer system and at the primary computer system; wirelessly receiving at the transceiver updated information to the electronic patient chart entered into and sent from the patient room computer system; and updating the simultaneously displayed electronic patient chart at the primary computer system with the updated information received from the transceiver communicating with the patient room computer system to permit monitoring of the updated information.