HEALTHCARE RESOURCE TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING RESOURCE USAGE IN RESPONSE TO EVENTS

摘要

A healthcare resource tracking system includes an incident analysis module executable on a processor to receive alarm events detected by one or more patient monitoring systems, wherein each patient monitoring system obtains physiological signals from a different patient over a time period. The incident analysis module divides the alarm events for each patient into alarm incidents, wherein each alarm incident is either a single alarm event or is an incident group of two or more related alarm events for the patient. A clinician time usage is determined for each alarm incident, wherein the clinician time usage is an amount of time required of one or more clinicians to attend to the one or more alarm events in the alarm incident. A total time usage is calculated over the time period based on the clinician time usage.