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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2014
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Scott Allan Fuller, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Stephen Thomas Treacy, Milwaukee, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
In the present invention, a method and accompanying system for evaluating alarm events generated by patient monitors includes the steps of receiving a plurality of alarm events and associated alarm event data from one or more patient monitors at a central control unit, storing the alarm event data in an electronic storage medium, calculating an acuity score for the patient monitor from the alarm event data and a customizable rule set input into and stored in the control unit, the rule set applied to the alarm event data and comparing the calculated acuity score to a threshold value for the acuity score.