Managing alerts in a patient treatment management system

A method for creating alerts for a medical treatment regimen having at least one treatment step comprising the steps of:

• defining a “step not completed” alert triggered by an event of the at least one treatment step not being completed;
• identifying any other alerts required to be triggered for events associated with the at least one treatment step;
• determining for each of the at least one treatment step alerts whether an associated one of the events will endanger a patient or cause an adverse outcome;
• and indicating no automatic suspension of any of the at least one treatment step alerts if the associated one of the events will endanger a patient or cause an adverse outcome.

A patient management system for processing a triggered alert from medical treatment regimen comprising:

• a computer network running a software program collecting data from a medical treatment regimen being performed on a patient, the computer network issuing a triggered alert from the data when an associated event has occurred;
• the computer network determining an alert type for the triggered alert and an alert frequency for the alert type;
• if the alert frequency for the alert type has been exceeded by the triggered alert and the alert type is permitted to be suspended, the computer network suspend issuing alerts of the alert type;
• and if the alert type is not suspended, the computer network notifies recipients associated with the alert type of the triggered alert.