We had a demo of XDS a few days ago... Apparently Philips is giving away the software for free. As long as you have one of their monitors with the newest software, you can load the XDS software in to any of your PCs and connect to the monitor. When you run the software, you see a window on the PC that looks like the patient monitor, with all the controls. The display shown on the PC can be totally different to what is on the monitor. They are promoting this as a clinical workstation, where nurses can view and control the monitor from a convenient place (you know how crowded ICU rooms get, with all the equipment blocking the way). As one of the docs remarked, this is the kind of ergonomics that the nurses have wet dreams about
