Patent ID: 8055476

Claim:
A system of medical apparatuses, said system comprising: a central database; one or more medical apparatuses, each medical apparatus comprising at least one first module configured to detect an error signal of the medical apparatus at which said first module is located, one second module comprising a local database that contains data, for the medical apparatus at which the second module is located, representing a record of previously occurring error situations of that medical apparatus, and that contains a record error correction procedures that have been undertaken for said error situations of that medical apparatus, and that contains information describing an effect of each error situation on functioning and continued usability of that medical apparatus, a third module configured to analyze a detected error situation at the medical apparatus at which the third module is located, dependent on the data in the local database in the second module at which the third module is located, to produce an analysis result comprising at least one of a procedure to correct the detected error situation and comprising an indication as to continued usability of the medical apparatus at which the third module is located, and a fourth module that emits said analysis result as an output; each local database being in communication with said central database to report all error situations and associated error correction procedures and continued usability of the medical apparatus to the central database, including error situations at the medical apparatus that have not previously occurred; and said central database being in communication with each local database to update the data in each local database.