Patent ID: 7468032

Claim:
A programmable device comprising a computer-readable medium for storing a computer-executable process for use in correlating data to manage a patient's health, the process comprising: acquiring data related to the patient's health, including: acquiring at least one parameter data series for one or more trended health-related parameters, wherein acquiring at least one parameter data series for one or more trended health-related parameters includes acquiring a parameter data series for use in determining atrial fibrillation percentage changes and a parameter data series for use in determining activity log changes; and acquiring at least one alert data series for one or more health-related alerts, wherein each of the one or more health-related alerts represents an alert condition for directing an alert to a patient or a clinician when a predetermined alert definition is satisfied; determining a correlation among the data, including determining a correlation coefficient for the at least one parameter data series and the at least one alert data series, wherein determining a correlation among the data includes automatically identifying a causal relationship with respect to the patient's health, wherein automatically identifying the causal relationship with respect to the patient's health and displaying the causal relationship that has been automatically identified includes automatically searching for a correlation between atrial fibrillation percentage and activity log changes; performing an action using the determined correlation coefficient, wherein the action is useful in managing the patient's health; and displaying the causal relationship that has been automatically identified.