Accessing medical devices remotely
The serial port is one of the most common ways to transfer data from legacy medical equipment to information systems deployed in modern healthcare centers. It’s not rare that COM-enabled medical devices are located separately from the control systems. Сonnections between them are usually established via long cables leading off the devices to non-portable monitors and user interfaces.
At the same time, more and more points of care today implement advanced technologies of remote access to medical equipment. With dedicated serial to network software, such devices as blood analyzers, anesthesia machines, X-ray machines, and many others can be connected to Ethernet and accessed from any remote location, be it a nurse’s station, a laboratory, a doctor’s office, etc.
The ability to collect patient vitals from multiple medical devices for sending them over the network to a doctor’s computer offers many benefits. In this article, we’ll tell how to increase productivity and improve patient care with the help of reliable COM over network software and hardware tools.