Patent ID: 8447626

Claim:
A communication system comprising: one or more medical peer devices, each medical peer device including a peer-to-peer interface and providing medical services for medical procedures; and a mobile device including: a short-range interface device configured to discover one or more medical peer devices and associated peer devices services; a positioning component configured to identify a location of the mobile device; an identification component configured to read one or more patient identification devices and identifies one or more patients at the location of the mobile device, and reads a clinician identification device and identifies a clinician at the location of the mobile device; and a visibility manager configured to limit information and services available to the mobile device to current context relevant information and services which are based on the identity of the one or more patients, the identity of the clinician, and the identified mobile device location, wherein the available information and services is limited to information and services of the one or more identified patients associated to the identified clinician at the location of the mobile device.