Patent ID: 8126728

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, by the medical data interchange device and via the configured medical device interface, the data from the medical device; transmitting, by the medical data interchange device, the data to an the intermediary device, wherein the intermediary device formats a message for transmission to a medical data server, wherein the message includes the received data, and wherein the intermediary device includes a software program configured to: receive the data; and process the data into a format compatible with the medical data server.