A number on a screen is not the same as a reading in the notes.
Every make speaks its own language
Two monitors from different manufacturers describe the same heartbeat in completely different ways.
Which machine sent this?
The message arrives, but without reliably saying which physical device, in which room, actually sent it.
A reading with no patient
A number that cannot be tied to a patient, a bed and an encounter has no business in a clinical record.
Right number, wrong units
One device reports in its own units, on its own local clock. The next one does it differently.
Someone copies it by hand
A nurse reads one screen and types it into another. That costs time, and hands make mistakes.
You never hear that it stopped
A cable gets knocked out, a reader fails, messages stop — and nobody notices until someone goes looking.
Guessing to fill the gap
Some systems will infer the missing patient rather than stop. That is exactly the wrong instinct.
From the machine to the patient's record.
We plug in the way the device expects — a network socket, a serial cable, a gateway, a file drop, or the vendor's own API. Not every method is available on every device.
Each make and model needs its own tested reader. Building one needs the protocol documentation, real sample messages and technical checking.
Right shape, right source, sensible units, a proper timestamp, values in a plausible range. This is a data-quality check, not a clinical judgement.
The right site, ward, device assignment, patient, bed and encounter. If any of that is unclear the reading does not go through — it is held, and the reason is recorded.
It goes to whichever clinical or operational destination your routing rules say it should, and we wait for that system to confirm it arrived.
Connection health, reading, matching, delivery. When something fails it retries by itself, and you can re-send once the problem is corrected.
Five kinds of device, each with its own answer.
Ventilators
Ventilator settings and status, into ICU and respiratory-care screens.
Patient monitors
Heart rate, oxygen, blood pressure and the rest, from supported monitors.
Infusion pumps
Pump status and readings from supported models.
Lab and point-of-care instruments
Analyser and point-of-care results, into diagnostic and clinical workflows.
Other approved devices
Other devices, once the protocol, workflow and safety questions have been answered.