To provide medical equipment and cooperative communication system using the same that can smoothly transmit information from the medical equipment to a management server etc. inexpensively while maintaining an existing system.

The medical equipment 10a includes a communication unit 13 for communicating with the management server 50 for managing biological information of patients and/or the other medical equipment, relay communication availability information storing units 31, 33 for storing information about whether or not the medical equipment 10a can serve as a relay communication unit for the other medical equipment, and a communication path searching unit 21 that acquires relay communication availability information from the other medical equipment and sets the other medical equipment as a relay communication unit and searches for a communication path with the management server by using the other medical equipment set as the relay communication unit.