Patent ID: 8473306

Claim:
A method for enabling variability analyses conducted over time at a plurality of sites to be interpreted, said method comprising: providing a connection between a central service and at least a first site of said plurality of sites; said central service obtaining from said first site, a data package comprising variability data and at least one clinical event associated with said variability data, said variability data having been generated at said first site from a variability analysis conducted over time based on sensor data acquired from at least one patient interface, said variability analysis comprising computing a measure of variability for a plurality of time intervals for at least one parameter, each measure of variability indicative of a degree and character to which a respective parameter changes over an interval of time, said at least one clinical event having been recorded at said first site during acquisition of said sensor data, each clinical event being time stamped to enable said clinical event to be associated with corresponding times at which said variability analysis was performed, each clinical event having been recorded independently of said variability analysis; said central service storing said data package in a central database configured to store a plurality of data packages, and making said database available for further processing; said central service enabling said clinical event data to be compared to associated variability data in at least one of said plurality of data packages to enable said variability data to be interpreted in connection with said at least one clinical event at said corresponding times; and said central service providing feedback to at least one of said plurality of sites based on an analysis interpreting variability using said plurality of data packages in said central database.