Patent ID: 8750396

Claim:
A method for communicating with medical devices, comprising: receiving, at a medical device communication interface, a first plurality of patient parameters from a first medical device in a first format; receiving, at the medical device communication interface, a second plurality of patient parameters from a second medical device in a second format; identifying, at the medical device communication interface, a first protocol associated with the first plurality of patient parameters and the first medical device by comparing the first plurality of patient parameters and the first format to a predefined schema; identifying, at the medical device communication interface, a second protocol associated with the second plurality of patient parameters and the second medical device by comparing the second plurality of patient parameters and the second format to the predefined schema; modifying, at the medical device communication interface, a respective configuration parameter for each of the first and second medical devices, the configuration parameter comprising at least one of a baud rate parameter, an encoding parameter, a data output parameter, a count parameter, a syntax parameter, and a software identification parameter; and translating the first and second plurality of patient parameters based on the first and second identified protocols and the respective configuration parameter for each of the first and second medical devices.