Patent ID: 6804558
Filing Date: 2004-10-12
Classification: A61B,A61N,G06F,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for remotely delivering patient requested medical services to an implantable medical device over a communications system, comprising:establishing communications between an implantable medical device and a health care provider remote from the implantable medical device; requesting medical services by a patient and initiating upload of data from the implantable medical device; uploading data from a communications module in the implantable medical device; analyzing data that have been uploaded from the communications module by a remote system; diagnosing the patient by a remote system coupled to a health care provider; determining an appropriate remedial response by the health care provider based on the diagnosis; executing a medical response that was determined to be appropriate by the health care provider; confirming that the remedial response has been successfully executed in the implantable medical device; and generating an invoice by the health care provider for the executed medical response.