Patent ID: 6607485
Filing Date: 2003-08-19
Classification: A61B,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
A computer-readable storage medium containing code for automated remote patient care using patient information retrieved from a medical device adapted to be implanted in a patient, comprising:organizing one or more patient care records in a database with each patient care record comprising a plurality of the collected measurements sets, each collected measurements set comprising individual measurements which each relate to patient information recorded by a medical device adapted to be implanted for an individual patient; receiving a set of the collected measurements periodically sent from the implantable medical device over a communications link; storing the collected measurements set into the patient care record in the database for the individual patient; analyzing one or more of the collected measurements sets in the patient care record for the individual patient relative to one or more other collected measurements sets stored in the patient care record of the individual patient; and sending feedback based on the analysis of the one or more collected measurements sets to the individual patient over a feedback communications link.