Patent ID: 8052611

Claim:
A heart failure hospitalization management system, comprising: one or more sensors to sense one or more physiological signals; a sensor processing circuit, coupled to the one or more sensors, to produce sensor data representative of the sensed one or more physiological signals; and a heart failure analyzer coupled to the sensor processing circuit, the heart failure analyzer including: a data input adapted to receive diagnostic data indicative of one or more conditions associated with heart failure decompensation, the data input including a sensor data input configured to receive the sensor data; a diagnostic data processor adapted to produce one or more heart failure decompensation indicating parameters using the diagnostic data indicative of the one or more conditions associated with heart failure decompensation; a mode switch adapted to switch an operational mode of the heart failure analyzer to a hospitalization mode in response to a mode change command; and a risk analyzer adapted to produce a risk class parameter during the hospitalization mode, the risk class parameter classifying a level of risk for rehospitalization within a specified period using the one or more heart failure decompensation indicating parameters.