Patent ID: 7070562
Filing Date: 2006-07-04
Classification: A61B,A61N,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for providing tiered patient feedback for use in automated patient care, comprising: a database storing patient care records with each record containing one or more physiological measures regularly recorded by an implantable medical device and relating to individual patient information recorded on a substantially continuous basis; an analysis module for providing automated analysis of the physiological measures, each of the physiological measures, each of the physiological measures being representative of at least one of measured and derived patient information retrieved from one such patient care record to determine a patient status; a feedback module providing automated tiered feedback to an individual patient responsive to and based on the patient status; and a patient programmer for wireless communication with said implantable medical device, the programmer receiving at least some of said automated tiered feedback and for providing automated reprogramming of the implantable medical device by said feedback module.