Patent ID: 8290791

Claim:
A method of remotely caring for a patient having a medical device, the method comprising: providing, by a processor, an instruction to a medical device, the instruction calling for medical device information that the instruction limits by at least one of: being collected by the medical device during a specific time period; or being related to a specific subject matter; selecting a limited data set consisting of only medical device information that is responsive to the instruction, from medical device information stored in the medical device, the limited data set comprising at least one of: information collected during the specific time period or information related to the specific subject matter as called for by the instruction; transmitting the limited data set from the medical device to a data mart; determining whether the data mart has access to instruction information that indicates how the instruction limits the medical device information selected and transmitted by the medical device; providing the instruction information from the medical device to the data mart in response to the data mart determining it does not have access to the instruction information; and managing the limited data set at the data mart according to the instruction information, wherein managing the limited data set at the data mart includes analyzing the limited data set based on historical information stored at the data mart.