Patent ID: 8832558

Claim:
A method for presenting patient data at the patient's bedside comprising: receiving without human intervention, at a particular display device located bedside for a particular patient, predetermined presentation style data that indicates: a subset of fewer than all parameters available from an electronic medical records (EMR) system; a first arrangement on a display device of related parameters in the subset; receiving at the particular display device without human intervention a plurality of most recent values from the EMR system, wherein the plurality of most recent values is associated in the EMR system with the particular patient for a corresponding plurality of parameters of the subset; presenting, on an initial screen at the particular display device according to the first arrangement without human intervention, a first most recent value of the plurality of most recent values; wherein receiving the predetermined presentation style data further comprises receiving predetermined presentation style data that indicates a predetermined query message and a predetermined schedule; and receiving the plurality of most recent values further comprises sending the predetermined query message to the EMR system on the predetermined schedule without human intervention and receiving at least one value of the plurality of most recent values in response to sending the predetermined query.