Patent ID: 7865225

Claim:
A method for implementing a medical procedure on a subject comprising the steps of: designating and reserving a group of medical apparatuses for implementing an entirety of a medical procedure on a subject, said group including a first medical apparatus having a data interface; electronically storing patient data associated with the subject, needed for implementing said medical procedure, in said first medical apparatus and implementing an initial portion of said medical procedure on said subject with said group including said first medical apparatus; only after beginning implementation of said initial portion of said medical procedure, identifying a second medical apparatus that is not in said group and that performs a medical function not performed by any apparatus in said group, as being necessary for completion of said entirety of said medial procedure, said second medical apparatus also having a data interface, and connecting said data interface of said first medical apparatus with said data interface of said second medical apparatus, exclusively through a direct connection between said data interfaces that did not exist prior to beginning said implementation of said initial portion of said medical procedure, said second medical apparatus not having said patient data stored therein at a time said direct connection is made; after making said direct connection, transferring said patient data from said first medical apparatus to said second medical apparatus via the respective data interfaces thereof; and subsequently proceeding with said medical procedure on said subject using said second medical apparatus.