You define the physical components of organizational units such as hospital rooms, bed locations, care unit corridors, treatment rooms, etc. as building units. Using facility characteristics and planning characteristics you can store the attributes and facilities of the building units.

Whenever you create a building unit, you assign a particular category to it. The category of a building unit specifies whether this building unit is a hospital room, treatment room, corridor, etc. You can define building unit categories of your choosing in Customizing for IS-H. For more information about this, see the section entitled Define Building Unit Categories in the IS-H Implementation Guide.

You can store the following data within the master data of a building unit:

Only categories of building units which you have characterized as rooms or bed locations in Customizing for IS-H are of functional significance. The following functions are supported for rooms and bed locations:

• Assignment of patients to rooms and bed locations
• Graphical representation in the care unit overview graphic