Abstract: Methods of controlling healthcare delivery processes within a clinical environment include providing rules predetermined in terms of conditional results governing clinical processes to supervise the delivery of healthcare within the environment. The rules are executable based on event data and subject data values toward the objective of optimal performance of the processes. The rules apply to all individuals of the environment and data derived from auto-ID tags of individuals are operated on by the rules and corrective action is indicated by evaluation of such data pursuant to the rules. Signals transmitted utilizing the tags are processed to obtain event data representing the locations of individuals and events occurring within the environment. Subject data related to the individuals is collected. The rules are executed using current values of event data and subject data to evaluate the performance of each process. A corrective action is performed indicated by the rules being evaluated.

Abstract: A real-time method and system for controlling healthcare delivery processes within a clinical environment is provided. The clinical environment is monitored by real-time locating apparatus including auto-ID tags. The method includes providing a set of rules which are predefined so as to be representative of a combination of event data and subject data values occurring when the healthcare delivery processes are performing optimally. The method further includes collecting real-time event data which represents the locations of mobile tag-wearing subjects within the environment and events which occur within the facility. The method still further includes collecting subject data which is directly or indirectly related to the tag-wearing subjects and evaluating in real-time the event data and subject data based on the set of predefined rules to measure performance of the processes.