Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to organizing individuals into a patient monitoring queue to monitor changes in their conditions. In various embodiments, a patient acuity indicator based on initial vital sign(s) acquired from each of a plurality of patients may be received (502). A patient monitoring queue may be established (504, 902) that includes the patients prioritized based next scheduled times for the patients to be monitored. The next scheduled times may be determined (1106) based at least in part on the patient acuity indicators. A selected patient at a head of the patient monitoring queue may be dispatched (506, 1076) for monitoring, and updated vital sign(s) may be unobtrusively acquired (510) from the selected patient using vital sign acquisition camera(s) (276, 376, 476, 776, 876). The patient monitoring queue may be altered (1034, 1038, 1042, 1046) in response to an outcome of the unobtrusive acquiring.