Patent ID: 8768717

Claim:
A method for controlling the operation of a medical pump including creating a library of pump data on a computer having a database, the pump data being organized into sets of program data, each set of program data being available for batch downloading to the medical pump and including data items for controlling operation of the medical pump, the method comprising: entering a plurality of data items into a database in the computer, the plurality of data items forming a set of program data, at least some of the data items being individualized, patient-specific parameters for controlling operation of an application program previously loaded onto a medical pump for a specific patient; batch downloading the plurality of data items from the database into memory within the pump to set parameters on the previously loaded application program of the pump, at least some of the data items batch downloaded into memory being individualized, patient-specific parameters, batch downloading comprising downloading at least two parameters without intervention from a user after batch downloading is initiated; and controlling operation of the pump with the previously loaded application program based on one or more of the data items.