54 collects the appropriate physiological data from the patient 52 as described above the monitoring system 54 may be any device or system utilized to collect the appropriate information from the patient 52 the monitoring system 54 may include simply a scale or even a home monitoring device or a blood pressure cuff furthermore a database 60 may be accessed to obtain physiological data associated with the patient 52 such database 60 may include an electronic medical record or the patient 39 s pharmacy record this method may be implemented in the system as a computer software application wherein the computer software application is stored on the storage medium 58 and a processor 56 executes the computer software application saved on the storage medium 58 in order to execute the method the processor 56 will collect the physiological data from the monitoring system 54 and the database 60 and construct the trended view desired by the physician as received from the input device 68 via the monitoring device 62 as described above the monitoring device 62 may be an existing patient monitor a pc or laptop workstation or even a handheld device by the physician this monitoring device 62 in some embodiments will include the input device 68 to allow the physician to select the appropriate information set for the desired trended view or may be a.