Patent ID: 7749164

Claim:
A method of providing care to a plurality of patients, the patients being attended by a clinician, a patient condition for each of the patients being transmitted to a centralized location, the method comprising the steps of: receiving at a centralized location from a monitoring device a signal indicative of the patient condition from each of a plurality of patients; displaying a real time-based representation of each patient's condition to a technician on a monitoring display; sending a communication from the technician to the clinician via a communication platform upon a change in patient condition; displaying in real time on the monitoring display to the technician a record of the communication attempt, wherein the record includes a communication sent indicator; displaying to the technician an indication of the next probable action to expect for each of the plurality of patients in a next action column of the monitoring display; and displaying to the technician a patient metric in a metrics column, wherein the patient metric is one of an institutionally defined metric or a technician selected metric, further wherein all of the displaying steps occur simultaneously.