Patent ID: 8856298

Claim:
A method for managing, in a computer system, patient-related parameters provided by at least one monitoring device, the method comprising the steps of: A) connecting the computer system to said at least one monitoring device; B) capturing, through the connection with the monitoring device, one or more physiological patient-related parameters selected from a set of patient-related parameters provided by said at least one monitoring device, wherein the capturing comprises: requesting continuously signal values for the one or more physiological patient-related parameters during a defined period of time; recording a time of capture for each signal value requested during the defined period of time; obtaining a delay of the at least one monitoring device in sending the signal values; and determining an actual time of capture for each signal value based at least on the time of capture for each signal value and the delay obtained for the at least one monitoring device; C) adapting each of the captured one or more physiological patient-related parameters to a predetermined parameter format to define a virtual parameter, said virtual parameter being a representation in the computer system of the captured one or more physiological patient-related parameters, which univocally represents a parameter independently of its device of origin; and D) managing the adapted one or more physiological patient-related parameters, wherein the managing comprises synchronizing each signal value captured for the one or more physiological patient-related parameters from said at least one monitoring device with signal values captured for one or more other physiological patient-related parameters captured from another monitoring device using the actual time of capture such that the synchronization takes account of the delay from the at least one monitoring device.