Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for monitoring status information associated with a mobile entity, such as a person, another type of living thing or a device that generates a characteristic entity signal. The presence of a physical attachment between an attachment location reporting device and a mobile entity is verified via detection of the entity signal by the attachment monitoring device. Optionally, the attachment monitoring device can transmit a signal that reports the status of the attachment and can also function as, or be attached to, or be located within a range of proximity to, a location reporting device. Hence, the attachment monitoring device can report upon the status of the proximity of a location reporting device with respect to the location of the mobile entity.

Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for communicating, processing and responding to information reporting the status of health care patients. In one aspect, the invention provides a procedure for allocating the attention of health care personnel to issues and events that are reported in association with health care patients located within a health care facility. In some embodiments, assignment of health care personnel to health care patients can be configured according to a set of directives. The directives can direct assignment of personnel based upon many criteria including, but not limited to, the identity and/or location of a health care patient, an issue or event associated with the status of the health care patient, the relative availability of other health care personnel to respond to the issue or event, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: A wireless patient monitor is adapted to communicate with any one of plural medical telemetry networks, each having one or more central stations, where each network is configured to communicate via wireless communications using one of multiple different communications settings. The monitor includes one or more sensor inputs for receiving vital signs data from a patient, a wireless transceiver, and a controller coupled to receive the vital signs data via the one or more sensor inputs and to communicate with a network via the transceiver. The monitor also includes a display device and is controllable by the controller to automatically display a notification to a user of the monitor upon establishing communications with the at least one central station. There is also a method of monitoring a patient and a wireless medical telemetry system.