Hi Brad

Interesting idea - but I'm not sure just how important it is that patients receive calls - I guess they are in hospital to get better, and that often includes rest...

Having said that, the phones are there, and there to stay.

What about using an RFID patient tag? Given its primary use is to avoid Wrong Site Surgery and provide other more basic medical/care info to staff, maybe it could be linked to the phone. If the read range of the phone's RFID reader was a couple of yards and its by the bed, maybe it would only receive calls when the patient is in bed/in their chair. Then you just have to add a tiny sensor to communicate if you are asleep or not - when you are, calls would be barred. The only other situation is staff examining you - maybe you just have to ignore the phone in that case ;-) Or maybe it sees their tag is present and also bars calls....?!

Cheers

Paul.