Patent ID: 7840268
Filing Date: 2010-11-23
Classification: A61M,A61N,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a medical device system for providing a controllable therapy to a patient, the system comprising an implantable medical device and an external controller, the method comprising: operating the implantable medical device, over a period of time, to provide a plurality of therapy regimes to the patient, each therapy regime being defined by one or more operational parameter values, the operational parameter values being communicated to the implantable medical device by the external controller; storing and maintaining one or more prior operational parameter values for a respective therapy regime in a historical information memory of the implantable medical device upon communication of one or more new operational parameter values from the external controller; storing and maintaining clinician notes in association with stored operational parameter values in the historical information memory of the implantable medical device; and operating the external controller to retrieve and display one or more clinician notes from the implantable medical device when input is received from a clinician to modify an operational parameter value to a value that substantially corresponds to a value that has been previously been utilized by the implantable medical device to provide a therapy regime to the patient.