1. A system comprising: an image capturing unit configured to capture at least one image of at least one medical device monitoring a patient; a database including images of a plurality of medical devices, wherein each image corresponds to a particular medical device at a particular angle; and a data collection server configured to: receive the at least one image; receive patient identification data corresponding to the patient; detect the at least one medical device in the image; modify the received image to prepare the received image for comparison; and compare the received image with the images stored in the database and match the received image with at least one of the images stored in the database to identify the particular medical device.