System and apparatus for electronic patient care

A system comprising:

• a network;
• a facility gateway configured to communicate via the network by providing a web service, wherein the facility gateway publishes a device event topic;
• a device application configured for execution on the facility gateway and configured to subscribe to the device event topic, wherein the device application publishes a Continuous Quality Improvement (“CQI”)-message topic, and wherein the device application is configured to receive an event from the subscription to the device event topic and publish the event as a CQI message through the CQI-message topic;
• a device in operative communication with the network, wherein:
• only the device is configured to communicate with the facility gateway using the web service and to generate the event using a web method of the web service,
• the device initiates communications with the facility gateway using the web service at predetermined intervals of time to request a response payload, the facility gateway configured to be prevented from initiating communications with the device;
• the facility gateway determines whether the device is listed on an access list of devices that can access the facility gateway;
• in response to the device initiated communication by the device determined to be on the access list, the facility gateway formats the response payload comprising an availability of a software update, an availability of a queryable data type, and a plurality of current request statuses, wherein each current request status is a request for the device to transmit a data type of a plurality of data types to the facility gateway,
• the facility gateway communicates the response payload to the device in response to the device initiated communication, and
• the device communicates all data types of the plurality of data types where a respective current request status of the current request statutes indicates a request of a respective data type.

A device comprising:

• at least one processor configured to communicate with a network, where only the device is configured to communicate with a facility gateway using a web service and to generate an event using a web method of the web service, wherein the at least one processor is configured where:
• the device initiates communications with the facility gateway using the web service at predetermined intervals of time to request a response payload, the facility gateway configured to be prevented from initiating communications with the device;
• the facility gateway determines whether the device is listed on an access list of devices that can access the facility gateway;
• in response to the device initiated communication by the device determined to be on the access list, the facility gateway formats the response payload comprising an availability of a software update, an availability of a queryable data type, and a plurality of current request statuses, wherein each current request status is a request for the device to transmit a data type of a plurality of data types to the facility gateway,
• the facility gateway communicates the response payload to the device in response to the device initiated communication, and
• the device communicates all data types of the plurality of data types where a respective current request status of the current request statutes indicates a request of a respective data type.