Patent ID: 8376943

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, with at least one of a medical device programmer or a medical device, an indication of an occurrence of a patient event, wherein the indication of the occurrence of the patient event indicates an occurrence of a symptom of a condition of a patient; automatically generating, with at least one of the medical device programmer or the medical device, an event marker based on the indication of the patient event; receiving, with the medical device programmer, event information relating to the patient event from the patient, wherein the event information indicates an efficacy of therapy that was delivered to the patient to manage the condition of the patient prior to or during the occurrence of the patient event; receiving, with the medical device programmer, additional information relating to the patient event, the additional information comprising at least one of physiological parameter data collected by a sensor prior to or during the occurrence of the patient event, an identification of a type of patient event indicated by the indication, a duration of the patient event, a rating of a severity of the patient event, or an activity engaged in by the patient prior to the occurrence of the patient event; with at least one of the medical device programmer or the medical device, associating the event information and the additional information with the event marker; and with at least one of the medical device programmer or the medical device, storing the event information, the additional information, and the associated event marker within a memory.