Patent ID: 8244335

Claim:
A method of analyzing cardiac rhythm information, the method comprising: collecting a plurality of self-contained, wearable, portable cardiac monitors, each of the cardiac monitors removed from a different mammal after having been worn by each mammal continuously without removal for at least 24 hours, and each of the cardiac monitors including at least two electrodes, an action sequencer having no central processing unit for rhythm analysis, and a memory containing at least 24 hours of continuously detected, stored and unanalyzed cardiac rhythm information, comprising both normal cardiac rhythm information and abnormal cardiac rhythm information collected from the mammal, wherein each cardiac monitor includes a watertight housing enclosing at least the action sequencer and the memory electronically coupled with the electrodes; opening the watertight housing on each cardiac monitor to retrieve the at least 24 hours of continuously detected, stored cardiac rhythm information stored in each of the collected plurality of self-contained portable cardiac monitors; analyzing, after the retrieving step, the at least 24 hours of continuously detected, stored cardiac rhythm information to generate a report; and providing the report to a user.