Abstract: A system is interfaced with multiple different financial, clinical and inventory information systems that provide information for on-line analytical processing to provide resource usage characteristics. A system for determining characteristics of resource usage, includes an acquisition processor for automatically acquiring data representing information. The acquired information includes revenue received for a particular usage of a particular resource by a particular patient, operating cost of maintaining the resource, and an acquisition cost of the resource. A data analyzer processes the acquired information to determine a profit or loss attributable to the resource. A communication processor communicates a message to a remote unit indicating the profit or loss in response to user command.

Abstract: A system for managing a device at a location of an associated entity includes a repository of device information identifying (a) the entity associated with the device, (b) the device, and (c) a characteristic indicating terms governing usage of the device by the entity. A communication processor communicates a message to the entity location identifying the device and updating the terms governing usage of the device.

Abstract: An information system for managing operation of medical devices in delivering treatment to a patient, comprising: an order processor for processing a physician order for initiating providing a treatment to a patient; a device management processor for receiving data items from the order processor comprising at least one of, (a) a patient identifier and (b) an identifier for identifying the physician order, and for processing and using the data items in managing access to a medical device used for delivering the treatment to the patient; and a communication interface enabling bidirectional communication between the device management processor and the medical device.