Patent ID: 6277072
Filing Date: 2001-08-21
Classification: A61B,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for monitoring a patient status for an individual patient using a reference baseline in an automated collection and analysis patient care system, comprising:an application server processing a set of collected measures recorded by a medical device adapted to be implanted in an individual patient into a set of reference measures, the collected device measures set comprising individual measures which each relate to patient information recorded by the medical device adapted to be implanted throughout an initial time period, each reference measure being representative of at least one of measured or derived patient information;a database server storing the reference measures set into a patient care record as data in a reference baseline indicating an initial patient status;a network server periodically receiving a set of collected measures from the medical device adapted to be implanted over a communications link, the collected device measures set comprising individual measures which each relate to patient information recorded by the medical device adapted to be implanted subsequent to the initial time period;the database server storing the subsequently collected device measures set into the patient care record for the individual patient; andthe application server comparing one or more of the subsequently collected device measures sets in the patient care record to the reference measures set and identifying any such subsequently collected measure substantially non-conforming to the corresponding reference measure.