[indymike]

I started my career making medical devices talk with PCs back in the 80s. Sounds like not much has really changed. Usually these machines have a serial protocol or in newer machines, a webserver and API that can be used to get data in a better format. You are lucky when you get good documentation. Sometimes, the vendor sells PC software as an add on and doesn't want competition.

This problem is probably a goldmine if a decent middleware could be written that grabs data from the device, transforms it to a standard format, and then loads it to EHR/EMR/HCM whatever software the hospital is using.