Intelligent presentation of alarms and messages in mobile health systems

A medical alarm management system, comprising:

• one or more processing units, and one or more processing modules, wherein the medical alarm management system is configured by the one or more processing modules to:
• maintain a mapping of each of one or more patients to one or more clinical care users;
• establish models of behavioral reactions for the one or more clinical care users with respect to receiving and responding to alarms;
• maintain user context information associated with each of the one or more clinical care users;
• receive an alarm indication associated with one of the one or more patients;
• receive an alarm context information associated with the alarm indication;
• determine a target clinical care user among the one or more clinical care users according to evaluating the mapping of patients to users, the user context information, models of behavioral reactions and the alarm context information;
• determine a notification modality according to evaluating the alarm indication, the target clinical care user, the models of behavioral reactions, and the alarm context information;
• transmit the alarm from the medical alarm management system to a system associated with the target clinical care user over a data network for presentation according to the notification modality;
• and
• adapt the models of behavioral reactions to improve one or more performance metrics associated with presenting medical alarms within a healthcare enterprise.

A computer program product, comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein that, when executed by one or more computing devices, perform a method comprising:
• establishing models of behavioral reactions for one or more clinical care users with respect to receiving and responding to alarms within a healthcare facility;
• implementing a rule engine comprising rules for presenting medical alarms to the one or more clinical care users, wherein the models of behavioral reactions are encoded as rules within the rule engine;
• maintaining a mapping of each of one or more patients to the one or more clinical care users;
• maintaining user context information associated with each of the one or more clinical care users;
• receiving an alarm indication from a medical device associated with one of the one or more patients;
• receiving an alarm context information associated with the alarm indication;
• determining a target clinical care user among the one or more clinical care users by applying the rules for presenting medical alarms to facts associated with the mapping of patients to clinical care users;
• determining a notification modality by applying the rules for presenting medical alarms to the alarm indication, the target clinical care user, a portion of the user context information associated with the target clinical care user, and the alarm context information;
• transmitting the alarm indication, the alarm context information, and the notification modality from an alarm management system to a mobile device associated with the target clinical care user over a data network;
• and
• adapting the rules for presenting medical alarms to improve one or more performance metrics associated with presenting medical alarms within a healthcare enterprise.