FIELD : medicine.SUBSTANCE : invention relates to patient monitoring. System and a method for optimization of alarm settings of a clinical alarm algorithm comprise acquiring clinical monitoring data (CMD) employed by the clinical alarm algorithm over a user-defined period of time. Proposed settings are determined for one or more parameters of the clinical alarm algorithm. Clinical monitoring algorithm is applied to the acquired CMD with the proposed settings to determine regeneration results predicting alarm load for different combinations of the proposed settings.EFFECT : optimization of alarm settings.15 cl, 7 dwg