AUTOMATED EMERGENCY ADMISSION WORKFLOW METHOD FOR CARDIAC AND OTHER TIME OR CRITICAL CARE PATIENTS

A system, computer program product and method for automated admission of a patient to a specialized care unit of a health care facility from a pre-hospital setting includes a controller with a memory in communication with a processor, the memory including program instructions for execution by the processor to detect an initiation of a specialized patient care protocol, link an identifier of a patient locator device associated with the patient to an electronic medical record of the patient in an electronic admission system of the health care facility, poll one or more specialized care units to identify an available specialized care unit, automatically schedule a procedure in the available specialized care unit, and electronically route the patient from the pre-hospital setting directly to the available specialized care unit.