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Welch Allyn Connectivity Server - Programmers guide User Manual

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Programmer’s Guide

System overview

7

Data transfer and storage within the Acuity System
network

The Acuity System stores patient data for variable amounts of time, depending upon
Acuity System license configuration.

Data export from patient monitors to the Acuity System

Welch Allyn portable patient monitors store vital-sign data and send it to the Acuity
System in the following ways:

Table 1. Patient monitor data storage and export to the Acuity System

Patient Monitor

Means of data export to
Acuity System

Mode of data
export to Acuity
System during
normal conditions

Patient monitor
data storage
during temporary
disconnection or
dropout

Data export to
Acuity System
after temporary
disconnection or
dropout

Hardwired monitors:
Propaq

®

Encore,

Propaq CS

Unshielded twisted pair
(UTP)

Stream

Data stored up to
monitor storage
capacity

Trends data only,
sent in batch mode

Hardwired Welch
Allyn 1500 Patient
Monitor

Ethernet

Stream

Data stored up to 24
hours

Trends data only,
sent in batch mode

Wireless monitors:
Propaq CS, Propaq LT
and Micropaq

®

802.11 wireless LAN

Stream

Propaqs: Data stored
up to monitor
storage capacity

Micropaq: No
storage

Propaqs: Trends data
only, sent in batch
mode

Micropaq: data lost