Patient monitoring devices (herein also called patient monitors), as often used in hospitals located next to the patient bed, are generally known in the art. They are used as a kind of measurement devices for measuring and displaying of physiological signs and for providing alarming and scoring based on the captured physiological signs. In case a caregiver decides to visit a patient, physiological signs, alarms and scores are available for review.
Conventional bedside patient monitors are able to measure and show the patient's physiological signs in real-time. They can also be connected to other devices, such as a PC, enabling caregivers to access and view all information available in the hospital database on a single screen.
U.S. Pat. No. 8,145,590 B2 discloses an expert system for patient medical information analysis. A plurality of chronic sensors is used to facilitate diagnosis and medical decision making for an individual patient. An expert system evaluates the sensor data, combines the sensor data with stored probability data and provides an output signal for notification or medical intervention.
WO 2014/091329 A1 discloses a monitoring apparatus for monitoring vital functions of a patient, comprising a connection device connectable to a patient medication storage unit and for receiving information about at least one drug administered to the patient, an interface connectable to a drug database for receiving information about at least one effect of the at least one administered drug and/or a combination of administered drugs, a measurement device associated to the patient for measuring at least one vital parameter of the patient, and a control unit for enabling a measurement of at least one vital parameter and/or for enabling an evaluation of a measurement of at least one vital parameter on the basis of the information about the at least one effect.
V. Koutkias et al., “A personalized framework for medication treatment management in chronic care”, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Special section on affective and pervasive computing for healthcare archive, Volume 14 Issue 2, March 2010, pages 464-472 discloses a framework for monitoring the patient's condition and safety with respect to the medication treatment administered. For this purpose, considering a body area network (BAN) with advanced sensors and a mobile base unit as the central communication hub from the one side, and the clinical environment from the other side, an architecture is described, offering monitoring patterns definition for the detection of possible adverse drug events and the assessment of medication response, supported by mechanisms enabling bidirectional communication between the BAN and the clinical site.