Abstract: A system and method for remotely monitoring multiple healthcare patients simultaneously is described. Multiple patients in multiple locations can be monitored for a variety of healthcare conditions and indicators. Information about the monitored patients is transmitted to a local monitoring component, which can be part of a portable processing system, and can be monitored by a healthcare professional using the portable processing system at any location convenient to the professional. An adaptive algorithm dynamically determines if an alert should be generated for a patient based on historical information associated with the patient or a procedure, situational information associated with a schedule, coordination or prioritization of multiple procedures, or predictive information based on the likelihood of a future condition based on a patient's current condition, a procedure being performed, or other factors.