Appeal No. 2006-0479
Application No. 10/309,274
particular patient; and the schedule is a patient care
event schedule, such as a clinical care pathway,
including medical treatment and operational process
events which a caregiver selects for the patient and
includes predetermined criteria which are utilized to
identify variances from the scheduled events.
[0020] In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a
controller coupled by a wireless, wired or combination
wired and wireless network to sensors, identification
badges, physiological output data monitoring equipment
and portable or fixed interfaces, each of which is
located within a tracking environment. . . . The
badges can be located or carried directly on or
adjacent to patients, caregivers and fixed or portable
diagnostic or medication dispensing equipment. . . .
Crane also discloses a system for tracking and monitoring
activities in a health care facility. The system controls, among
other things, the flow of patients and employees within the
facility based on real time inputs from “sensed I.D. card codes,
sensed selected test information, sensed test result information,
final diagnosis information, prescription confirmation, insurance
verification, standardized testing program information, health
maintenance program information, patient appointment information,
and requests for patient data exchange” (column 9, lines 29-35).
With regard to the manner in which the patients are directed
through the facility, Crane teaches that:
The clinic building must be designed so that the
patient is controlled efficiently where the patient has
few steps to go to the prescribed rooms and where the
rooms are on the same floor. As part of the design,
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