Demo of the Generic Smart Alarm: a framework for the design, analysis, and implementation of smart alarms and other clinical decision support systems

Abstract

Cheap and energy efficient wireless technologies have the potential to usher in an era of pervasive and ubiquitous patient monitoring. Some applications which could take advantage of pervasive monitoring are smart alarms and clinical decision support (CDS) systems. We demonstrate the Generic Smart Alarm (GSA), a framework for the design, analysis, and implementation of smart alarm or CDS systems. We will show how the a GSA can be used to adapt a smart alarm for specific patient populations as well as how a smart alarm can be tailored to the performance characteristics of a specific networking platform.