Intelligent assignment, scheduling and notification scheme for task management

A system for managing tasks comprising:

• an task assigner for assigning predetermined tasks to at least one clinician, the predetermined tasks being assigned based on a schedule of the at least one clinician and a plurality of patients;
• an event-based monitor for generating event tasks;
• and
• a transceiver for receiving generated event tasks, the event tasks being assigned by the task assigner based on the clinician's schedule.

A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for managing tasks, the method steps comprising:

• registering at least one clinician along with a schedule of predetermined tasks and availability for the at least one clinician;
• registering at least one patient;
• assigning registered patients to the at least one registered clinician;
• generating an event task for the at least one registered clinician;
• determining if the at least one clinician is available;
• and
• if the at least one clinician is unavailable, assigning the event task to a next available registered clinician.

A method for managing tasks, the method comprising the steps of:

• registering a plurality of predetermined tasks,
• registering at least one technician along with a schedule of availability for the at least one technician;
• assigning registered tasks to the at least one registered technician;
• generating an event task for the at least one registered technician;
• determining if the at least one technician is available;
• and
• if the at least one technician is unavailable, assigning the event task to a next available registered technician.