An apparatus for monitoring the medical condition of a patient, including a monitoring
device which during use monitors one or more clinical features of the patient;
a predictive instrument arranged to receive output from the monitoring device and
programmed to compute a probability of a medical outcome or diagnosis based on
the monitored one or more clinical features, the predictive instrument further
programmed to compute that probability by executing an algorithm which models the
medical outcome or diagnosis; and an interface through which a user enters information
characterizing the patient, wherein the predictive instrument is further programmed
to request that algorithm from a remote location.
