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In the last years, with the progressive expansion of Healthcare Information Systems (HISs), the healthcare platforms for interoperability and monitoring systems have become increasingly more vital sources of clinical information. In this context, in Centro Hospitalar do Porto (CHP), the INTCare system was developed with the purpose to create new useful knowledge for decision support in real-time. It is an unquestionable potential area to develop effective systems for the prediction of clinical events, including Decision Support Systems (DSSs), for organ failure and death in Intensive Care. The INTCare uses multiple data sources that are collected at the bedside. However, this system fails on the recognition of the patient absence in bed. Thereby, this problem led to the development of the Patient Localization and Management System (PaLMS), i.e., a RFID localization and monitoring system. Thus, this paper …