A patient vital sign acquisition and recording apparatus for obtaining patient vital sign measurements and recording the vital sign measurements in an electronic medical record is disclosed. A user interface module receives a range of acceptable vital sign measurements and a schedule of how often to record the vital sign measurements. A monitor interface module obtains from a telemetry monitoring system vital sign measurements associated with the patient in accordance with the schedule. An alarm reporting module generates an alarm if the obtained vital sign measurements are outside the range of acceptable vital sign measurements. An interpretation module, in response obtaining the vital sign measurements, causes automatically records the obtained vital sign measurements in an electronic medical record associated with the patient.
