Patent ID: 8775196

Claim:
A method for executing at least one of an alarm process or an alert escalation process within a healthcare system comprising the steps of: a medical device generating a signal that at least one of an alarm or an alert condition exists for a specific patient; the medical device sending the signal to a central computer; the central computer determining if a first clinician's device is active; and if the central computer determines that the first clinician's device is active: the central computer relaying the signal relating to the alarm or alert condition to the first clinician's device; the first clinician's device indicating the alarm or alert condition by displaying the specific patient's name and an alarm or alert icon related to the alarm or alert condition in close proximity to the patient's name on a list interface which contains a list of all patients the first clinician is responsible for, including the specific patient, for which signals relating to alarm or alert conditions have been sent to the first clinician's device, wherein each patient name and corresponding icon on the list is a hyperlink to a respective pump alarm details interface screen, different alarm or alert icons are associated with care required for different patients and each hyperlink is associated with a different color or shading to differentiate the level of urgency of attention required for each of the patients on the list, and wherein the first clinician's device is configured to enable the clinician to select patients to be added to the list of patients using an input device of the first clinician's device and wherein the first clinician's device transmits information related to the updated list of patients to the central computer; the central computer operating a timer; and the central computer escalating the signal if a response to the alarm or alert condition is not received prior to a predefined timer limit, wherein escalating the signal includes transmitting the signal to a second clinician's device and while maintaining the signal sent to the first clinician's device.