Systems and methods for medical alert management

A method for managing machine-generated medical alerts via a medical system, the method comprising:

• receiving a medical event detected from a patient and information of historical medical alerts associated with the patient using a receiver circuit;
• generating, using an alert prioritizer circuit, an event priority indicator for the detected medical event using the detected medical event and the information of historical medical alerts;
• identifying a prolific alert patient having a quantity of historical medical alerts exceeding a threshold quantity value during a specified time period;
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• using an output circuit, adjusting an alert timing or an alert order based on the event priority indicator, and scheduling a presentation of the detected medical event using the identification of the prolific alert patient.

A system for managing machine-generated medical alerts, the system comprising:

• a sensor circuit configured to sense a physiological signal from a patient;
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• a detector circuit configured to detect a medical event using the sensed physiological signal;
• a receiver circuit configured to receive information of historical medical alerts associated with the patient, the information of historical medical alerts including one or more alert clusters each comprising one or more historical physiological signal characteristics;
• an alert prioritizer circuit configured to:
• extract a signal characteristic from the sensed physiological signal in response to the detection of the medical event;
• compute one or more similarity metrics respectively for the one or more alert clusters, the one or more similarity metrics each being computed between (1) the extracted signal characteristic corresponding to the detected medical event and (2) the one or more historical physiological signal characteristics of the corresponding alert cluster;
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• generate an event priority indicator using the one or more similarity metrics and a cluster priority, the event priority indicator inversely related to at least one of the one or more similarity metrics;
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• an output circuit configured to adjust an alert timing or an alert order based on the generated event priority indicator.