Computer hardware and software for use with medical patient vigilance equipment for detecting, analyzing, processing, recording, transmitting and displaying data and alerts relating to physiology and activity of a patient; computer hardware and software, namely, servers, server operating software, and wireless data communication devices for use with medical apparatus that senses, records and analyzes physiological data and activity of a patient on a support surface and alerts medical personnel to clinically significant changes in patient condition; communications hardware and software for connecting medical equipment that detects clinically significant changes in patient physiology and activity to a clinical information system, a nurse call system or other clinical alert communication, information and notification system in a hospital, outpatient, disease management, skilled nursing facility, retirement home, physician office, or other healthcare facility, and to a telephone, cell phone, pager, internet, email, text message, and other messaging system in a home or healthcare facility