Patent ID: 8990924
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: A61N,G06F,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: storing data of an implantable medical device and a set of user accounts in a memory, wherein the set of user accounts comprises a general user account and a user accounts; determining whether a user of a programmer that communicates with the implantable medical device is a general user or an authenticable user; accessing one of the general user account or one of the plurality of authenticable user accounts based on the determination, wherein the each of the accounts include respective access control information that specifies a respective subset of the data of the implantable medical device available and respective actions available for managing the data; controlling access and management of the data of the implantable medical device by the user according to the access control information of the accessed one of the accounts; during access and management of the data by an authenticable user associated with the one of the plurality of authenticable user accounts, receiving a request from the authenticable user associated with the one of the plurality of authenticable user accounts to clear data from the implantable medical device, wherein the data is accessible to both general users and each authenticable user associated with one of the plurality of authenticable user accounts; and in response to receiving the request to clear data from the authenticable user, clearing the data from both the general user account and the one of the plurality of authenticable user accounts associated with the authenticable user, but not from any of the other authenticable user accounts of the plurality of authenticable user accounts, wherein the data comprises diagnostic data, and wherein the diagnostic data comprises at least one of physiological data of the patient collected by the implantable medical device or indications of therapy delivery by the implantable medical device.