Patent ID: 8359338

Claim:
A universal configuration database (UCDB) comprising: a protocol associated with a medication; an institutionally established guideline associated with one of a plurality of treatment locations, wherein the guideline comprises a maximum dose rate; a plurality of first data elements each comprising a device operating characteristic associated with one of the plurality of device types; a plurality of second data elements each comprising device communication information associated with one of the plurality of device types; and a device type module comprising a plurality of fields respectively associated with one of the plurality of device types, each field comprising at least one reference link to at least one of the data elements associated with the device type associated with the field; wherein: first and second datasets created from the UCDB respectively configure a first device type and a second device type to deliver the medication according to the protocol and the guideline, delivery of the medication by the first device type when loaded with the first dataset is equivalent to delivery of the medication by the second device type when loaded with the second dataset, and the second device type will not deliver the medication according to the protocol and the guideline when the second device type is loaded with the first dataset.