1. A system for monitoring data associated with a plurality of physiological characteristics of a patient, comprising: a processor configured for receiving input from a plurality of independent physiological data streams from one or more monitoring devices; wherein each of the physiological data streams comprises an individual raw alarm associated with the physiological data within the stream; and programming executable on the processor for: reading the input physiological data streams; comparing the input data stream against a set of predictive super-alarm patterns associated with the plurality of physiological conditions; the predictive super-alarm patterns comprising a temporal window of data acquired from a combination of at least two individual encoded raw alarms from independent physiological data streams that co-occur within the temporal window; and triggering an alarm if a combination of the input physiological data matches at least a portion of a generated predictive super-alarm pattern; wherein the triggered alarm is predictive of an adverse event associated with the physiological characteristics of a patient.