Patent ID: 8126730

Claim:
A method comprising: transitioning, by a medical data interchange device, from a quiescent state to an active state in response to a signal transmitted from a medical device to prepare the medical data interchange device to receive data from the medical device, wherein the data comprises at least one of patient data, a device identifier and a patient identifier; broadcasting, by the medical data interchange device, an authorization code stored in the medical data interchange device in response to a request for authorization; authenticating, by the medical device, the medical data interchange device by determining that the broadcast authorization code matches a code stored by the medical device; automatically detecting, based on a voltage of the signal from the medical device, a communication protocol used by the medical device; automatically configuring 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 receiving data, at the medical data interchange device, from a medical device through a wired connection, wherein the medical device collects the data from a patient; storing the data; transmitting the data to an intermediary device; formatting a message for transmission to a medical data server, wherein the message includes the received data; selecting a transmission method from a plurality of transmission methods based at least partially on a cost associated with the transmission method; in response to determining that the cost associated with the transmission is below a predetermined level, delaying the transmission of the data to the medical data server for a predetermined time period; determining that the predetermined time period has elapsed; and in response to determining that the time period has elapsed: determining that the cost associated with the transmission is at or above the predetermined level, and transmitting the data to the medical data server.