Patent ID: 8292807

Claim:
An integrated apparatus for use in a patient encounter, said apparatus comprising: at least one medical diagnostic instrument including a vital signs monitoring device for measuring various physiological parameters of a patient, said physiological parameters including blood pressure, glucose, body temperature, pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation; and a computing device connected to said at least one medical diagnostic instrument, wherein at least one of said computing device and said at least one medical diagnostic instrument are programmed to detect changes in a patient condition based on changes in two or more parameters of said patient and in which said computing device is programmed to alert the user that changes in said patient condition have exceeded at least one predetermined threshold, and in which the changes in said at least two physiological parameters are used by said computing device to predict the onset of sepsis, wherein said computing device is programmed to calculate a glycemic control score of a patient based on historical data and to determine whether a patient's blood sugar level is within a predetermined range.