Appeal No. 2006-0479
Application No. 10/309,274
6. A method for directing patients to proper locations
within a medical facility, comprising:
a) providing room number signs for each of a plurality of
rooms within the medical facility, the medical facility
including: i) a main corridor that extends in a substantially
straight manner from an entrance to an exit of the medical
facility, and ii) a plurality of hallways that extend
substantially perpendicular off of the main corridor at different
locations of the main corridor;
b) sequentially numbering the rooms in the medical facility
based on a relative location of each of the rooms with respect to
the entrance;
c) providing at least one sign adjacent to the entrance to
the medical facility, which directs a patient to a counter;
d) determining, based on real-time information as to
locations of medical facility staff, whether or not the patient
can be treated by one of the medical facility staff;
e) if it is determined that the patient can be treated,
providing the patient with an electronic card at the counter so
as to monitor a current location of the patient, and directing
the patient to a first particular room within the medical
facility so that the patient can be treated; and
f) directing the patient from the first particular room in
which the patient has been treated, to a second particular room
in which the patient will be treated next,
wherein the step f) comprises:
determining a room number of the second particular room
in which the patient is to be treated, as compared to a room
number of the first particular room in which the patient is
currently located; and
wherein the patient goes to the main corridor and
travels in a first direction if the room number of the second
particular room is higher than the room number of the first
particular room, and the patient goes to the main corridor and
travels in a second direction opposite the first direction if the
room number of the second particular room is lower than the room
number of the first particular room.
12. A method for directing a patient to a treatment room
within a medical facility, comprising:
a) providing room numbers for each of a plurality of rooms
within the medical facility starting with a room closest to an
entrance of the medical facility, in such a manner that the room
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