Inferring a condition of a medical analyzer

An apparatus configured to host a data processing agent for inferring a condition of at least one analytical device based on at least one automatic notification received over a network from the analytical device, the apparatus comprising:

• a communications interface;
• and
• a processor coupled to the communications interface and configured, in operation, to execute the functions of a data processing agent on the processor, wherein the communications interface is configured to receive, at a data processing agent, at least one automatic notification from at least one analytical device, wherein the processor is configured, using the data processing agent, to process at least one automatic notification, to thus identify one or more characteristics of the analytical device based on the at least one automatic notification from the at least one analytical device, wherein the processor is configured to infer, using the data processing agent, the condition of the at least one analytical device, by applying the one or more identified characteristics to a model, and wherein the processor is further configured to
• receive, at the data processing agent, at least one item of annotation data via the network;
• associate, at the data processing agent, the one or more items of annotation data with one or more of the at least one automatic notifications;
• infer the condition of the at least one analytical device based, additionally, on the association between the at least one item of annotation data with the at least one automatic notifications;
• and
• generate, at the data processing agent, a notification reporting the inferred condition of the analytical device.