Patent ID: 7899683

Claim:
A system for providing expert critical care simultaneously to a plurality of geographically dispersed intensive care units (ICU's) from a remote location, the system comprising: a network; a plurality of geographically dispersed ICU's comprising means for monitoring patient data elements from a patient and means for transmitting the monitored patient data elements to a remote command center by the network; the remote command center connected to the network and comprising: one or more display devices; a database, wherein the database comprises stored patient data elements relating to the patient; a computerized patient care management system connected to a workstation, wherein the computerized patient care management system is adapted for: receiving the monitored patient data elements from the plurality of geographically dispersed ICU's; storing the monitored patient data elements in the database; applying a rules engine to at least two patient data elements stored in the database; displaying at least two patient data elements as a series of values over successive periods of time and displaying an indication from an output of the rules engine on the one or more display devices; monitoring the medical condition in the patients and utilizing the output from the rules engine to determine if intervention is warranted; and wherein the monitoring and intervention for individual patients in the plurality of geographically dispersed ICU's occurs 24 hours per day 7 days per week.