Patent attributes
In a method for optimizing and automating patient clinical workflow where medical personnel oversee a patient from intake to an end of the clinical workflow, at least one patient monitoring unit is provided which monitors clinical activities related to the patient during at least a portion of the clinical workflow. A centralized communication platform is provided which is controlled by, and which provides information output to, at least one of the medical personnel. The communication platform receives different types of information including at least patient monitoring unit information, rules information, structured information, and IT information. With the communication platform, the different information types are processed and management outputs are provided to the at least one medical personnel for decision making and overall management of the clinical workflow.
