Patent ID: 8779924

Claim:
A healthcare information system for use in a healthcare facility having patient beds in a plurality of patient rooms, the healthcare information system comprising a nurse call computer located at a nurse's station, the nurse call computer including a first display screen, the nurse call computer being configured to receive nurse calls originating from the patient rooms and to display information about the nurse calls on the first display screen, a plurality of interface units, each interface unit being located in an associated patient room, each interface unit being configured to receive bed data that pertains to an associated patient bed, each interface unit communicatively coupled to the nurse call computer and configured to send bed data to the nurse call computer automatically without any user input at the associated interface unit, and a status board computer also located at the nurse's station, the status board computer being communicatively coupled to the plurality of interface units, the status board computer comprising a second display screen that is operable in a first mode to display simultaneously, for more than one patient, in a single row format for each of the more than one patient, information regarding the patient, name of any located staff in the patient's room, bed data, and room status, wherein the status board computer is configured to permit a user to select and deselect which information from among all available information is to be shown on the second display screen when it is later operating in the first mode and to omit from being shown that information which is deselected, wherein for each patient for whom an alert or nurse call has been generated, the second display screen shows in each respective row an alert/call type and an elapsed time, in seconds, since each individual alert or nurse call was generated.