PCD Profile Alarm Communication Management Overview

Alarm Communications Management (ACM) allows a patient care device to send a notification of an alert or alarm condition to a portable device such as a smart phone.

Summary

The Alarm Communications Management profile defines an HL7 V2 message for communicating detailed information about an alarm from a patient care device to an information system which then causes a message to be transmitted to a portable device

Benefits

• Provides a secondary means for notifying the appropriate person of a condition needing timely human intervention.

• May allow a clinician in a large or noisy unit to more quickly and accurately identify the source, nature, and action needed for an alarm.

• Defines the interfaces needed to mediate between a patient care device and a system communicating with a smart phone or other portable device.

• Defines an interface for a system archiving the details of alarms.

Systems Affected

Actors & Transactions:

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Specification

Profile Status: Trial Implementation

Documents:

ACM Documents Page

Underlying Standards:

• HL7
• WCTP
• ...

See Also

Related Profiles

• Device Enterprise Communications [DEC] can transmit the same kinds of notifications to an information system rather than a portable device

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