A system, method and tangible computer readable storage medium for receiving, from each of a plurality of sensors disposed in one of a plurality of patient rooms in a hospital ward, data relating to a corresponding patient housed in the one of the plurality of patient rooms, receiving data relating to an output destination, generating a prioritized list including one or more of the plurality of the patients based on the data relating to the plurality of patients and the data relating to the output destination and sending the list to the output destination.