A medical system comprising: at least one processor programmed to: receive physiological alarms for patients generated by patient monitors comprising sensors collecting physiological data of the patient and/or generate physiological alarms for patients from physiological data of the patient collected by sensors of patient monitors ; establish an alarm rate limit for the patients, and alarm response limits for clinician response times, based on a clinical alarm management policy, wherein the established alarm rate limit is based on a target number of alarms and an amount of time to look back; store the received and/or generated physiological alarms for subsequent analysis, wherein each stored alarm includes clinician acknowledgement time of the alarm, onset time of the alarm, and a clinician assigned to a patient corresponding to the alarm; analyze the stored physiological alarms which fall within the time to look back to determine - patients exceeding the established alarm rate limit by determining alarm rates of the patients and comparing said alarm rates to the established alarm rate limit for the patients, and - clinicians exceeding the established alarm response limits ; notify clinicians of (i) patients in their care that have alarm rates exceeding the established alarm rate limit and (ii) patients in their care that have clinician acknowledgement times exceeding the established alarm response limits ; and recommend reducing the alarm sensitivity for patients identified as having excessive alarm rates. receive physiological alarms for patients generated by patient monitors comprising sensors collecting physiological data of the patient and/or generate physiological alarms for patients from physiological data of the patient collected by sensors of patient monitors ; establish an alarm rate limit for the patients, and alarm response limits for clinician response times, based on a clinical alarm management policy, wherein the established alarm rate limit is based on a target number of alarms and an amount of time to look back; store the received and/or generated physiological alarms for subsequent analysis, wherein each stored alarm includes clinician acknowledgement time of the alarm, onset time of the alarm, and a clinician assigned to a patient corresponding to the alarm; analyze the stored physiological alarms which fall within the time to look back to determine - patients exceeding the established alarm rate limit by determining alarm rates of the patients and comparing said alarm rates to the established alarm rate limit for the patients, and - clinicians exceeding the established alarm response limits ; - patients exceeding the established alarm rate limit by determining alarm rates of the patients and comparing said alarm rates to the established alarm rate limit for the patients, and - clinicians exceeding the established alarm response limits ; notify clinicians of (i) patients in their care that have alarm rates exceeding the established alarm rate limit and (ii) patients in their care that have clinician acknowledgement times exceeding the established alarm response limits ; and recommend reducing the alarm sensitivity for patients identified as having excessive alarm rates. <EOS>