Medical device management and theft inhibitor techniques

A healthcare enterprise has an associated management resource that manages operation of one or more medical devices in the healthcare enterprise. To determine what functionality to enable in a respective medical device, the respective medical device establishes a communication link to communicate in a network environment. Subsequent to establishing the communication link, the medical device initiates communications over the communication link from the medical device to the remotely located management resource. The communications include a unique identifier value assigned to the medical device. Depending upon feedback (such as granting or denial of authorization) from the management resource with respect to the unique identifier value, the medical device operates in one of multiple different operational modes such as a fully functional mode or a reduced functionality mode. 医疗保健企业具有管理该医疗保健企业中个或多个医疗设备的操作的相关联的管理资源。为了确定在相应的医疗设备中启用什么功能，相应的医疗设备建立通信链路，以在网络环境中通信。在建立通信链路之后，医疗设备经通信链路发起从该医疗设备到位于远程的管理资源的通信。通信包括指派给医疗设备的唯标识