Abstract: A real-time status system for managing encounters in a health care facility is disclosed. The real-time status system includes a graphical user interface in communication with a health care scheduling system for accessing encounters, scheduling information for the encounters, and tracking information for the encounters. The real-time status of the encounters, generated and updated based on the scheduling information for the encounters and the tracking information for the encounters, is displayed on the graphical user interface. A scheduled status of the encounters based on the scheduling information for the encounters can also be displayed on the graphical user interface, and users can selectively view the real-time status and the scheduled status independently or simultaneously.

Abstract: A method of building a surgical case for a patient and an identified surgeon wherein the method includes retrieving a set of events for the surgical case, graphically depicting the events as a group of nested boxes, and providing an alert indicator when a relationship between the events is improperly coordinated.