Patent ID: 8527449

Claim:
A computer-implemented sepsis alerting method, comprising: automatically extracting with a computer system, from records maintained for a patient under care in a healthcare facility, information from an electronic medical record; obtaining with the computer system information about real-time status of the patient; using the information from the electronic medical record and the information about the real-time status to determine whether the patient is likely to be suffering from dangerous probability of sepsis; electronically alerting an initial caregiver over a network if it is determined that a potentially dangerous level of sepsis exists; using information from the electronic medical record, after a determined time period relating to a time when the initial caregiver was alerted, to determine whether treatment for sepsis is already being provided to the patient and whether a potentially dangerous level of sepsis continues to exist; and electronically alerting a follow-up caregiver over a network if it is determined that a potentially dangerous level of sepsis exists and that treatment for sepsis is not already being provided.