Patent ID: 8126735

Claim:
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: automatically detects, based on a voltage of a signal received from the medical device, a communication protocol used by the medical device; automatically configures a medical device interface of a plurality of medical device interfaces to communicate with the medical device using the detected communication protocol, wherein each medical device interface is configured to receive patient data via a wired connection from a plurality of different medical devices; and 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.