Patent ID: 8600506

Claim:
A cardiac rhythm management (CRM) system for collecting patient event information, comprising: an implantable CRM device; an external interface device remote from the CRM device and comprising: i. a communication module adapted to be communicatively coupled to the CRM device and to request information from and receive information from the CRM device during transmission sessions, ii. a display device adapted to prompt a user of the CRM system to select a reason for a particular transmission session; iii. a user input device adapted to accept input indicating a selected reason; iv. a filter configured to determine whether the user of the CRM system has been prompted to enter a reason for any transmission session within a previous timeframe before prompting the user; wherein the external interface device is configured to store a timestamp for the transmission session and wherein the communication module is configured to transmit the selected reason and the timestamp for the transmission session to the CRM device; and wherein the CRM system is adapted to store the selected reason and the timestamp for the transmission session.