Usage modeling for intelligent management 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 models of patient alarm operations;
• incorporate, into the models of patient alarm operations, one or more modeling parameters related to behaviors associated with clinical users;
• incorporate one or more modeling parameters related to alarm context into the models of patient alarm operations;
• establish rules associated with intelligent alarm management based upon the models of patient alarm operations;
• apply the established rules associated with intelligent alarm management to presentation of alarms to the clinical users;
• apply the established rules associated with intelligent alarm management to interpretation of alarm responses from the clinical users;
• and
• adapt the established rules associated with intelligent alarm management to improve a metric of patient alarm efficacy.

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:
• maintaining models of patient alarm operations, where the patient alarms originate from medical devices associated with one or more patients;
• incorporating, into the models of patient alarm operations, one or more modeling parameters related to behaviors associated with one or more clinical users;
• incorporating one or more modeling parameters related to alarm context into the models of patient alarm operations;
• establish rules associated with management of patient alarms based upon the models of patient alarm operations;
• applying the established rules associated with management of patient alarms to presentation of alarms to mobile devices associated with the clinical users;
• applying the established rules associated with management of patient alarms to determine alarm response options to offer to the clinical users along with presentation of the patient alarms;
• applying the established rules associated with management of patient alarms to interpretation of alarm responses from the clinical users;
• adapting the established rules associated with management of patient alarms to improve a metric of patient alarm efficacy;
• and
• adapting the established rules associated with management of patient alarms to improve a metric of patient outcomes.