Patent ID: 8082027

Claim:
A portable electrocardiograph (ECG) acquisition system, the system comprising: an acquisition device, the acquisition device including: a storage medium including a set of executable code embodying a host software application in a plurality of formats; an ECG connector including a set of ECG leads, wherein the ECG leads collect a set of ECG data from a patient; a USB connector, wherein the USB connector is configured to couple the acquisition device with a host device; an ECG acquisition module, wherein the ECG acquisition module controls the collection of the set of ECG data from the patient; and a processor, wherein the processor loads the set of executable code in an appropriate one of the plurality of formats on to the host device and executes the set of executable code in the host device when the USB connector is coupled with the host device, and further wherein the executed code starts the software application and displays the software application on a display of the host device, including displaying the set of collected ECG data on the display of the host device in real time with the software application.