NICUs are equipped with multiple bedside monitoring devices that are connected to the premature neonate and acquire a few gigabytes of data every day. The continuous data from these devices are manually documented every hour, which leads to errors and loss of a large amount of high-resolution data. The intermittent documentation of physiological data also makes it difficult for clinicians to visualize and detect trends of diagnostic utility.

The last few decades have seen rapid growth of digital devices resulting in availability of real-time data points through various interfaces, which enables collation of digitized records using standard protocols like HL7 (Health Level 7) or ASTM (American Society for Testing Material). Since central monitoring services provided by device vendors adhere to their own specific modality, require extra licensing and hardware costs, there is a need for a unified vendor solution.

Such a solution should provide real-time data access of vendor specific devices and must adhere to international standards such as HL7. Hence, there is a need for a portable bedside data aggregator that consolidates real-time data from various bedside monitoring devices while storing and transferring all the data to EMR.