Patent ID: 11887728
Assignee: MASIMO CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 15:
16. A method for remotely escalating a patient monitoring alarm to provide a continuum of care to a patient after discharge from a hospital, the method comprising:
remotely receiving an alarm and physiological data from a device monitoring the patient, the device being assigned to the patient in response to the patient being admitted to the hospital, an alarm profile template matching attributes of the patient being outputted to a clinician and customized alarm settings for the patient being transmitted to the device in response to acceptance of the alarm profile template by the clinician;
designating, based on data stored in a memory of an alarm escalation system, first and second care providers who have been previously associated with the patient in the memory, wherein the first care provider is a primary care provider of the patient and the second care provider is a non-primary care provider of the patient, the primary care provider being more familiar with a medical history of the patient than the non-primary care provider;
electronically determining a situational context of the first care provider;
in response to determining the situation context of the first care provider indicates the first care provider is available and local to the patient, transmit the alarm to the first care provider for possible in-person intervention;
in response to determining the situational context of the first care provider indicates the first care provider is available but located remote from the patient, and that the second care provider is local to the patient:
transmitting, to the first care provider, the alarm and data received from the patient monitoring device for interaction with the patient via telepresence technologies;
electronically receiving a recommended course of action from the first care provider regarding the alarm based on the interaction with the patient via telepresence technologies; and
escalating the alarm by transmitting the recommended course of action and the alarm to the second care provider; and

in response to determining the situational context of the first care provider indicates that the first care provider is unavailable and that the second care provider is local to the patient, automatically escalating the alarm to the second care provider by transmitting the alarm to the second care provider for possible in-person intervention.