Patent ID: 7815568

Claim:
A method of providing programming information to at least one implantable medical device located within a patient, the method comprising: initiating an interface between the implantable medical device and an expert data center comprising a virtual electrophysiologist module (VEM), a chronic monitoring module (CMM) and a prescription program module (PPM) positioned in the data center located at a separate corporate headquarters or manufacturing plant location that is remote relative to the implantable medical device; transmitting device information regarding the at least one implantable medical device from the implantable medical device to the data center; transmitting patient information from the implantable medical device to the data center; analyzing the device information and the patient information; performing a diagnostic routine utilizing the device information and the patient information; suggesting an optimum therapeutic device setting; and transmitting the optimum therapeutic device settings from the data center to the implantable medical device based on the performed diagnostic routine.