Patent ID: 9665692
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: A61B,G16H

Claim:
1. A system for enabling test data resulting from an analytic determination carried out on a clinical analytic device to be delivered to an electronic patient information management system, the system comprising: a computer module communicatively connectable to the clinical analytic device, a user operable control unit communicatively connectable to the computer module, and an instrument tag readable by the user operable control unit and associated with the clinical analytic device, wherein the user operable control unit comprises a tag reader for selecting the clinical analytic device by reading the instrument tag and is arranged to, in response to a reading of the instrument tag, cause a mode selecting signal to be transmitted to the computer module, wherein the mode selecting signal comprises information connected to output data protocol of the clinical analytic device, and wherein the computer module comprises a processor unit arranged to: receive the mode selecting signal; in response to the mode selecting signal, select an operative mode of the computer module from multiple predetermined operative modes, each of the multiple predetermined operative modes being associated with a respective clinical analytic device output data protocol; and identify test data in received data from the clinical analytic device, wherein the identification of the test data is carried out according to the selected operative mode of the computer module, the selected operative mode being associated with the clinical analytic device output data protocol.