1. A system for presenting guideline recommendations to care givers, said system comprising: at least one display device, each displaying a user interface; and, at least one processor programmed to: receive a guideline recommendation for a patient based on a computer interpretable guideline (CIG), wherein the guideline recommendation includes: state information descriptive of the current state of the CIG, and presentation information descriptive of at least one visual element, wherein the presentation information includes both data from the state information and meta-data describing how the at least one visual element is to be displayed; select a presentation approach from a plurality of alternative approaches for representing the guideline recommendation, at least one of the plurality of alternative approaches using the user interface of one of the at least one display device to represent the guideline recommendation, the selection comprising: determining whether the display device is capable of displaying a first approach wherein a visual presentation is rendered from the presentation information, and based on determining that the display device is not capable of displaying the first approach, displaying a second approach wherein a new presentation is generated based on the state information; and present the guideline recommendation to at least one associated user according to the selected presentation approach.