Abstract: There is provided apparatus for conveying real-time medical data received from patient connected terminals within a hospital to clinician. The apparatus is characterised in that the clinicians receive data from the apparatus via mobile devices (117) located outside a hospital and the apparatus is located at the hospital collecting a plurality of data sets from a plurality of patients. The apparatus comprises a first processing system (201) for receiving native medical data from a hospital internal network and for converting the data into generic video images; a second processing system (202) for authenticating requests from mobile devices to facilitate or block external communication; and a third processing system (203) for receiving input commands from the mobile devices, encrypting the generic figure images to produce encrypted video images and for transmitting the encrypted video images to the mobile devices.