Abstract: An intelligent routing and automated workflow queuing system for a health care receives information related to health care provider patient treatment assets and individual patient data record information consisting of one or more patient information including urgent medical needs, special accommodation needs, VIP status, participation in a research or clinical trial, appointment reason, anticipated amount of health care provider work time needed for this visit, scheduled appointment start time, cumulative wait time in the health care provider setting for this visit as well as other variables. Responsive to this information, the system calculates a quantitative priority variable for each patient and then calculates a quantitative priority variable for each Health Care provider, for automatically prioritizing and queuing patients for a next care step based on the information related to the health care provider patient treatment assets and individual patient data record information.

Abstract: A tracking and management system for patients in a health care setting to improve efficiency and provide a visual office shown on a display device. A plurality of sensors are located throughout the health care office. The plurality of sensors can be located on patient data record holding devices, on chairs and medical equipment, and inside medical exam rooms. Each sensor communicates information to a central processing unit. Sensors located on the patient data record holding device detect the presence of an individual patient data record in the individual patient data record holder of the patient data record holding device and then transmit a signal to a central processing system. The central processing unit also receives information from an individual patient data record processing device.