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A collection and reporting system for infusion appliance comprising a battery operated monitoring device connected to the power source of the infusion appliance which monitors its usage for a certain period of time, whereupon the data pertaining to the various assignments are transferred to collecti

A collection and reporting system for infusion appliance comprising a battery operated monitoring device connected to the power source of the infusion appliance which monitors its usage for a certain period of time, whereupon the data pertaining to the various assignments are transferred to collecting means and further listed by printing means. The data include information pertaining to the monitoring device itself, the infusion appliance being monitored, the patient data and the usage data indicative of the functioning status of the infusion appliance. Usage data are logged every six minutes. The data residing in monitoring device or the meter are collected, recorded, printed and then cleared every one hundred eighty-four days or whenever the storing capacity of the RAM of the meter is exceeded. An indicator is turned on at the six month point to signal the need for collecting data.

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In combination with an electric consuming medical appliance device or patient monitoring device, a usage monitoring device for acquiring usage data solely from input electrical means to said electrical device, said usage monitoring device comprising: logging means for acquiring usage data from said

In combination with an electric consuming medical appliance device or patient monitoring device, a usage monitoring device for acquiring usage data solely from input electrical means to said electrical device, said usage monitoring device comprising: logging means for acquiring usage data from said input electrical means wherein said usage data are representative of at least two states indicative respectively of the functioning or the nonfunctioning of said input electrical means; storing means mounted within said logging means for accumulating said usage data during a first mode of operation; and means for retrieving said data from said storing means during a second mode of operation.