Patent ID: 8126735
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving patient information related to one or more patients from a plurality of medical devices comprising a plurality of medical device types, wherein at least one of the medical devices uses a different communications protocol from the other of the plurality of medical devices, the patient information received through one or more of a plurality of intermediary devices, wherein each of the plurality of intermediary devices is capable of communicating with each of the plurality of medical devices; at least some of the plurality of intermediary devices communicating with one or more of the plurality of medical devices, wherein at least one of the communications uses a different communications protocol from the other communications; wherein each of the plurality of intermediary devices that communicates with one or more of the plurality of medical devices: transmits the patient information received from each of the medical devices to a processor; analyzing by the processor the patient information received from each of the plurality of medical devices and for each of the one or more patients to identify a condition for each of the one or more patients; formatting a report for each of the one or more patients based on the patient information and the patient condition for each patient; and providing each of the reports to a recipient, wherein each of the reports is provided to the recipient automatically when a difference between a time stamp for a first set of data in the report and a time stamp for a second set of data in the report exceeds a predetermined duration.