Medical infusion pump communication and programming with computing devices

A method, comprising:

• providing a medical infusion pump, the medical infusion pump associated with a specific user;
• and
• providing software operable on a computing device, wherein the software is adapted to:
• receive information relating to operation of the medical infusion pump by the user through a connection between the medical infusion pump and the computing device;
• and
• display information received from the medical infusion pump on a user interface presented on a display,
• wherein the user interface includes a plurality of stacked windows, each window having a corresponding tab that is displayed on the user interface adjacent the tabs of the other windows, each tab being selectable to bring the window corresponding to that tab to a top of the stack as an active window in which a user can view and edit information while the windows corresponding to the other tabs remain in the background.

A method of monitoring use of a medical infusion pump, comprising:

• receiving at a computing device information from a medical infusion pump associated with a specific user relating to operation of the medical infusion pump by the user, the information received through a connection between the medical infusion pump and the computing device;
• and
• displaying the information received from the medical infusion pump on a user interface presented on a display communicatively coupled with the computing device,
• wherein the user interface includes a plurality of stacked windows, each window having a corresponding tab that is displayed on the user interface adjacent the tabs of the other windows, each tab being selectable to bring the window corresponding to that tab to a top of the stack as an active window in which a user can view and edit information while the windows corresponding to the other tabs remain in the background.