Abstract: An optical report generation system includes a clinical information system (“CIS”) server to store raw monitoring data for at least one patient and to generate optical reports, at a predetermined time interval, based on the raw monitoring data. The CIS server includes a database. A control server determines the reports to generate, based on the raw monitoring data. The optical reports include all possible optical reports which can be generated based on the raw monitoring data.

Abstract: A critical event notification system continuously monitors patient statistics and lab data to detect critical events, and automatically pages a responsible physician or physicians, each having an alphanumeric pager. In particular, a computer is used to continually access real-time data and multiple hospital databases which are periodically updated. These databases include patient chart databases, databases corresponding to patient history and databases maintained by various labs. The computer, preferably a clinical information system, is automatically provided with certain data, or periodically extracts it from other, relational databases. The computer automatically reviews this data, makes the critical event determination, and formulates an alphanumeric message that is informative as to the patient's condition and the reasons why a critical event was detected.