Medical devices, namely, capnography monitors alone or in combination with analgesia pumps, electronic infusion pumps, intravenous pumps, food pumps, ambulatory pumps, analgesia pumps, heart monitors, pulse oximeters, ventilators, CPAP devices, and BIPAP devices, for delivering therapy or monitoring a patient that contains a communications engine with electronic circuitry and software for facilitating remote communication between the medical device and another medical device or a computer.