A medical system ispresented, where the system includes amedical profile directory configured Iomaintain a set of medical system profiles,a medical profile manager configuredto update and maintain medical systemprofiles within the medical profiledirectory, and a server configured tointerface with the medical profile managerto facilitate medical system profilemaintenance. The server is configuredto transmit information from at least onemedical system profile to a surgical system,thereby enabling the surgical system toemploy a current operational parameterwithin the medical system profile desiredby a user.
