Patent ID: 8510126

Claim:
An automated method for monitoring a plurality of patients to prioritize patient care in a least two hospitals, the method comprising: receiving an unsorted listing of a plurality of clinical data for a plurality of patients from a server through a connection to the Internet, the server receiving the plurality of clinical data from the at least two hospitals; sorting the unsorted listing of the plurality of clinical data using software executing on the server; calculating severity scores from said plurality of clinical data using software executing on the server; providing a unified display for displaying said clinical data and said severity scores; and displaying said clinical data and said severity scores on a unified display, wherein said unified display is sorted based on a condition to monitor, wherein said unified display displays at least two numeric severity scores associated with the clinical data for each patient, wherein each said severity score is based on at least two components of clinical data, and wherein the server is located at one hospital and performs the steps of receiving an unsorted list, sorting the unsorted list, and calculating the severity scores for the at least two hospitals.