Health care professionals often rely on their knowledge and experience together with observations and measurements to make clinical judgments and plan appropriate therapy regimes. In many circumstances, however, intuitive decision-making fails to achieve the optimal balance under competing or conflicting care delivery demands. In certain circumstances a medical professional may be overloaded by patient data from the monitoring equipment and its analysis. Computers have the capability to monitor large volumes of diverse data rapidly, whereas humans are only able to monitor a maximum of seven...