A system and method for creating and presenting a rolling severity of illness acuity score are comprised of two phases. The first phase analyzes historical physiologic and clinical data from a hospital's EMR system and discovers data patterns that presage a deleterious outcome. These data patterns are stored in a first database. Once these patterns have been revealed, the second phase involves embedding these patterns into a hospital's EMR, collecting data on new patients in near-real time, matching up this data against the patterns uncovered in Phase One, and producing a score based on how many of these deleterious patterns a patient is exhibiting. This score is updated continuously, weighting the current value higher than previous scores. If this rolling score surpasses a specific value, an alert is generated. The alert, in one example a color-coded signal, is then sent to a mobile device or tablet of the clinicians caring for the patient.
