Patent ID: 8882684

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a location sensing system that comprises a plurality of location sensors, the location sensing system being configured to: identify respective locations of a plurality of clinicians, and generate a location-sensing-system signal in response thereto; and a patient-monitoring system comprising: a first sensor, configured to measure a clinical parameter of a patient, and to generate a first sensor signal in response thereto; and a control unit configured: in response to the first sensor signal, to determine that an alert event has occurred, in response to the location-sensing-system signal, to designate a first subset of the clinicians, and in response to having determined that the alert event has occurred, to communicate an alert to the first subset of clinicians, wherein, in response to the location-sensing-system signal, the control unit is configured to determine whether a clinician from the first subset of clinicians is moving toward the patient, and, in response to determining that no clinician from the first subset of the clinicians is moving toward the patient within a given time period, to communicate the alert to clinicians not in the first subset of clinicians.