CPC A61B 10/0012 (2013.01) [A61B 5/02405 (2013.01); A61B 5/0816 (2013.01); A61B 5/4343 (2013.01); A61B 5/4809 (2013.01); A61B 5/6892 (2013.01); A61B 5/7282 (2013.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); A61B 5/01 (2013.01); A61B 5/02 (2013.01); A61B 5/024 (2013.01); A61B 5/08 (2013.01); A61B 5/11 (2013.01); A61B 5/4812 (2013.01); A61B 5/6891 (2013.01); A61B 5/7267 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. An apparatus for use with a plurality of patients requiring respective care-provision tasks, the apparatus comprising:
a plurality of sleep sensors automatically monitoring a plurality of patients and generating a plurality of signals in response thereto, without contacting the respective patients;
a plurality of location sensors identifying respective locations of a plurality of care-providers, and generating location-sensing signals in response thereto;
a controllable mechanism adjustable to alter a patient's environment to improve the a sleep quality of at least one of the plurality of patients;
a user interface, and
a care-provision prioritization control unit receiving the signals from the plurality of sleep sensors, receiving location-sensing signals from the plurality of location sensors, and providing control signals to control the operation of the controllable mechanism, the care-provision prioritization control unit analyzing the signals from the sleep sensors to ascertain respective sleep stages of the patients, controlling the controllable mechanism to alter a patient's environment to improve the sleep quality for at least a first patient of the plurality of patients if the care-provision prioritization control unit determines that the sleep of the first patient of the plurality of patients is to be prioritized over sleep of a second patient of the plurality of patients, analyzing the location-sensing signals to determine a prioritization of at least one of the care-provision tasks of the first patient of the plurality of patients over at least one other of the care-provision tasks of the second patient of the plurality of patients based on the sleep stage of each of the respective patients and the respective locations of the plurality of care-providers, and
generating an output to a care-giver indicating the prioritization of the care-provision tasks,
wherein the output is communicated to the user interface.
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