Patent ID: 8731960

Claim:
A method of assisting a medical institution in developing an institution-specific customized configuration library for configuring at least one medical device at the institution, the method comprising the steps of: providing a configuration library database comprising medical device configuration information from a plurality of remote distinct institutions; organizing the configuration library database into peer groups according to one or more assigned criteria of the remote distinct institutions wherein at least one of the criteria is selected from the group consisting of institution type, number of beds, medical device type, and service line; assigning a peer group to each institution by matching institutions with selected peer definitions and storing the peer group assignment in the database; granting a configuration library developing institution access to view a portion of the configuration library database if access criteria are satisfied; and providing the developing institution access to programming code that enables the developing institution to copy a part of the viewed portion of the configuration library database within a peer group into an institution-specific customized configuration library database.