Patent ID: 9514277
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G16H

Claim Text:
1. A clinical monitoring network comprising: a network backbone; a central station connected with the network backbone; a plurality of medical devices including a plurality of patient monitors, each patient monitor: monitors physiological conditions of a corresponding patient, displays representations of the physiological conditions of the corresponding patient on a physiological display, communicates the monitored physiological conditions and critical event conditions with the central station via the network backbone, includes a paging display module; a paging server connected with the network backbone to receive at least the communicated critical event conditions concerning a first patient whose physiological conditions are monitored by a first of the patient monitors and to communicate paging messages to selected patient monitors other than or in addition to the first patient monitor; wherein the display modules of the patient monitors receive the paging messages communicating critical event conditions concerning other patients and display the paging messages on the physiological display in addition to the displayed representations of the monitored physiological conditions of the corresponding monitored patient such that at least some of the patient monitors display the monitored physiological condition representations of one patient and paging messages communicating the critical event conditions concerning one or more other patients; wherein the paging display module displays the paging information of the one or more other patients in a pop-up window on the physiological display.