Patent ID: 6920360

Claim:
A method of computerized control of an implantable medical device deployed in a patient, comprising the steps of: providing a centralized computing resource external to a patient having a physiologic model; transmitting via a network communication link a set of historical physiologic data previously gathered from the implantable medical device to a centralized computing resource external to a patient; performing a computerized analysis of the transmitted Bet of historical physiologic data using the physiologic model that produces a set of results; and making a computerized determination of a set of instructions comprising an implantable medical device therapy regimen based at least in part on the set of results from the analysis of the set of historical physiologic data; and transmitting via the network communication link or a separate network communication link the set of instructions to the implantable medical device for execution by the implantable medical device in accordance with a firmware- or a software-implemented executable routine.