I would see www.labtronics.com - they have a European office (in The Netherlands) and are used to dealing with medical device data-capture and GCP / Research issues (QA, FDA rules, EUDRA specifications, etc.) You might also see if the BARQA site (www.barqa.com)

Also, if this for a study of some kind:
http://www.file-away.co.uk/deviceadvice.htm
http://www.file-away.co.uk/erecords.htm

If you are reading directly into Excel, you might be subject to the electronics record rules, etc. Wimmer systems have a package that adds audit trails to Excel.

>Hi,
>I have an medical instrument COBAS Integra 400 , who Knows to communicate with a host on the basis of master/slave dialogue using an RS 232 serial interface.
>On host computer runs VFP7 , and I want to communicate with this instrument.
>Does anybody have any idea?
>Thanks