Patent ID: 6960167
Filing Date: 2005-11-01
Classification: A61B,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for patient monitoring using a reference baseline for use in automated patient care, comprising: a processing module processing one or more reference physiological measures relating to individual patient information recorded during an initial observation period by an implantable medical device into a reference baseline; an analysis module periodically receiving one or more updated physiological measures regularly recorded by the implantable medical device subsequent to the initial observation period; a database module storing the reference physiological measures and one or more reference quality of life measures recorded by the individual patient during the initial observation period into a patient care record for the individual patient, and storing the updated physiological measures and one or more updated quality of life measures recorded by the individual patient subsequent to the initial observation period into the patient care record; a comparison module comparing the updated physiological measures to the reference physiological measures in the reference baseline to generate a patient status indicator identifying any such substantially non-conforming updated physiological measure; and a quality of life comparison submodule comparing the updated quality of life measures to the reference quality of life measures in the patient care record to generate the patient status indicator identifying any such substantially non-conforming updated quality of life measure.