Patent ID: 8700169
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: A61N,H04R

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: maintaining, by a fitting subsystem, patient data associated with a cochlear implant patient and representative of information associated with one or more components of a cochlear implant subsystem fitted to the patient; maintaining, by the fitting subsystem, registration data for a cochlear implant emulation device registered with the fitting subsystem and configured to emulate an implanted cochlear device included in the cochlear implant subsystem, wherein the cochlear implant emulation device is not implanted within the cochlear implant patient and is bundled with a resistive load configured to emulate an actual load of the implanted cochlear device; detecting, by the fitting subsystem, a coupling of a cochlear implant device to the fitting subsystem; automatically determining, by the fitting subsystem based on the registration data, that the coupled cochlear implant device is the cochlear implant emulation device registered with the fitting subsystem; performing, by the fitting subsystem, one or more operations while the cochlear implant emulation device is coupled to the fitting subsystem; determining, by the fitting subsystem based on the one or more operations, that the cochlear implant subsystem functions incorrectly while the implanted cochlear device is coupled to the fitting subsystem and correctly while the cochlear implant emulation device is coupled to the fitting subsystem; indicating, by the fitting subsystem based on the determining, that the implanted cochlear device is a source of a problem with the cochlear implant subsystem; and preventing, by the fitting subsystem, data acquired by the fitting subsystem during the performance of the one or more operations while the cochlear implant emulation device is coupled to the fitting subsystem from being included in the patient data.