The patient-specific information includes:

• Laboratory and radiographic results (if authorized by the physician);
• The patient's daily schedule of medications, laboratory and radiographic studies, operating room start times, all updated as the course of a day brings new information;
• Educational materials for the patient's condition, instructions, discharge instructions and medication schedules;
• Documentation such as consents or authorizations including the information that forms the basis of informed consent, individualized if desired to the pertinent physician;
• Physician provided information, links and instructions;
• Secure messaging to and from nurses, physicians. Regular, unsecured email will also be available. Optional bi-directional audio-video secure messaging will be available.

• Call bell functionalities that allow truly timely and bidirectional contact;
• Hospital policies that affect patients (such as those referring to smoking, etc.);
• Links to a hospital's Internet site;
• Links to medical information sites, PubMed and other medical source materials;
• Access information for physicians and hospital services, with photos and other enhancements;
• Information about nearby hotels, restaurants and other information of interest to visitors;
• Routine TV, calming music and photos, diversionary games, and other entertainment;
• Patient paid features, such as supplemental cable TV programming, logged Internet access.

ContentSuite^TM: a hospital modifiable suite of patient education tools that provide detailed information on disease processes, medications, the medical care system, end of life decision making, ethics, and other topics. It also contains modules for physicians and nurses that can be used to systematize such processes as obtaining informed consent, end of life decision making, patient education, discharge planning and instructions.

Flying Squirrel^TM: a mouse-like device suspended above a patient's bed or wirelessly connected to the PatientConsole. Flying Squirrel includes a microphone, a speaker, a directional mouse function, and a single mouse button. This allows several types of auditory and visual input functions for patients that will open the world to patients who have neurological, strength, mobility, voice, comprehension, or language impediments to communication.

ImpedimentTools^TM: a software package that enhances screen interactions with patients, using variable size characters, graphical and sound interfaces or language interpretation, and other processes reaching more patients with impediments ranging from simple presbyopia to stroke. One of the groups most separated from the flow of clinical information is the group of patients whose illnesses have impaired their mobility, sight, hearing, communication or language. PatientCentral provides many tools for such patients to connect and interface. This is accomplished both by incorporating off?the-shelf technologies and with proprietary devices and software.

LanguageTools^TM: software and associated audio-visual and hardcopy tools to assist communicating to and from patients with languages other than English.

MyHealthArchive^TM: software system that empowers patients to safely and securely maintain their longitudinal healthcare history across inpatient and outpatient visits and events.

MyHistory^TM: an interface between the patients, families or visitors and the medical record to allow improved information flow when the physician, nurse or other clinician is unavailable.

SatisFACTion^TM: an online patient satisfaction tool that gives real time feedback to the hospital in performance as a whole as well as for specific individuals. Analytical tools provided for performance improvement, public relations, risk management, competitive marketing and other management needs.

SmartWristBand^TM: a miniature communication device worn on the wrist that is automatically and passively monitored by the PatientCentral^TM Patient Locator Module, a wireless patient tracking system.

WhatsWhen^TM: an interactive patient's agenda/schedule of upcoming events, medications, tests, visits, etc.