Patent ID: 8886792

Claim:
A processor-based system for providing for the display of data from a plurality of heterogeneous medical devices, the system comprising: a smart alarm subsystem for determining whether the data from one or more medical devices of the plurality of heterogeneous medical devices meets predetermined criteria for triggering at least one each one of a limit alarm, a deviation alarm, a consecutive alarm, and a combination alarm; a central authority subsystem in communication with the smart alarm subsystem; a user interface in communication with the central authority subsystem; and a database subsystem in communication with the central authority subsystem; wherein the central authority subsystem transmits the data from the plurality of heterogeneous medical devices for display by the user interface and for storage by the database subsystem, substantially simultaneously, wherein the user interface sets parameters in the smart alarm subsystem and receives alarms from the smart alarm subsystem through the central authority subsystem, and wherein the alarm is triggered by at least each one of: a parameter for a data value from one medical device as, a limit alarm; deviates from a setting by a clinician as a deviation alarm; a combination of parameters occurs for data values from more than one medical device, as a combination alarm; and as a result of an alarm being triggered more than a predetermined number of times, as a consecutive alarm.