A patient monitoring and treatment system for providing sensor data capture capabilities, the system comprising: a medical device comprising: a display, at least one sensor-agnostic data interface port (140a, 140b, 298, 298a, 298b) comprising a plurality of electrical contacts (295a-e) configured to enable power transfer to a sensor and data communications between the sensor (120a, 120b, 220) and the medical device, a host processor, memory, and associated circuitry, and; a data transfer cable comprising: a first electromechanical connector configured to detachably couple the data transfer cable to the at least one sensor-agnostic DI port, and a second electromechanical connector configured to detachably couple to the sensor and comprising: a plurality of cable contacts, each cable contact configured to detachably mate with a corresponding contact of the plurality of electrical contacts, a cable memory, a cable processor configured to execute software stored in the cable memory to format sensor data in a sensor-agnostic data format according to a protocol of the at least one sensor-agnostic DI port, an authentication circuit configured to provide encrypted authentication/identification (AU/ID) information for the sensor to the medical device, and a cable isolation device for limiting patient leakage current flow from the medical device to the sensor, the cable isolation device configured to electrically isolate the authentication circuit from the cable processor and the cable memory, wherein the display is configured to provide at least one visual representation of the sensor data. a medical device comprising: a display, at least one sensor-agnostic data interface port (140a, 140b, 298, 298a, 298b) comprising a plurality of electrical contacts (295a-e) configured to enable power transfer to a sensor and data communications between the sensor (120a, 120b, 220) and the medical device, a host processor, memory, and associated circuitry, and; a display, at least one sensor-agnostic data interface port (140a, 140b, 298, 298a, 298b) comprising a plurality of electrical contacts (295a-e) configured to enable power transfer to a sensor and data communications between the sensor (120a, 120b, 220) and the medical device, a host processor, memory, and associated circuitry, and; a data transfer cable comprising: a first electromechanical connector configured to detachably couple the data transfer cable to the at least one sensor-agnostic DI port, and a second electromechanical connector configured to detachably couple to the sensor and comprising: a plurality of cable contacts, each cable contact configured to detachably mate with a corresponding contact of the plurality of electrical contacts, a cable memory, a cable processor configured to execute software stored in the cable memory to format sensor data in a sensor-agnostic data format according to a protocol of the at least one sensor-agnostic DI port, an authentication circuit configured to provide encrypted authentication/identification (AU/ID) information for the sensor to the medical device, and a cable isolation device for limiting patient leakage current flow from the medical device to the sensor, the cable isolation device configured to electrically isolate the authentication circuit from the cable processor and the cable memory, a first electromechanical connector configured to detachably couple the data transfer cable to the at least one sensor-agnostic DI port, and a second electromechanical connector configured to detachably couple to the sensor and comprising: a plurality of cable contacts, each cable contact configured to detachably mate with a corresponding contact of the plurality of electrical contacts, a cable memory, a cable processor configured to execute software stored in the cable memory to format sensor data in a sensor-agnostic data format according to a protocol of the at least one sensor-agnostic DI port, an authentication circuit configured to provide encrypted authentication/identification (AU/ID) information for the sensor to the medical device, and a cable isolation device for limiting patient leakage current flow from the medical device to the sensor, the cable isolation device configured to electrically isolate the authentication circuit from the cable processor and the cable memory, a plurality of cable contacts, each cable contact configured to detachably mate with a corresponding contact of the plurality of electrical contacts, a cable memory, a cable processor configured to execute software stored in the cable memory to format sensor data in a sensor-agnostic data format according to a protocol of the at least one sensor-agnostic DI port, an authentication circuit configured to provide encrypted authentication/identification (AU/ID) information for the sensor to the medical device, and a cable isolation device for limiting patient leakage current flow from the medical device to the sensor, the cable isolation device configured to electrically isolate the authentication circuit from the cable processor and the cable memory, wherein the display is configured to provide at least one visual representation of the sensor data.