Patent ID: 8231540

Claim:
A system for managing respiratory insufficiency in conjunction with heart failure assessment, comprising: a data module to assemble physiological measures, which were directly recorded as data on a substantially continuous basis by a medical device for a patient or indirectly derived from the data; a status module to determine a wellness indicator for the patient through sampling and analysis of the physiological measures over a plurality of data assembly points; and an evaluation module to evaluate the physiological measures relative to the wellness indicator, comprising: an analysis module to analyze a patient status trend comprising one of a status quo and a change in at least one of cardiac performance and respiratory performance; and a comparison module to compare the patient status trend to applicable indications of worsening heart failure and respiratory insufficiency, wherein the evaluation module further evaluates a time span over which the patient status trend occurs; an indicator module to define stickiness indicators comprising a temporal bound on change of one or more of the physiological measures, and a revision module to revise patient treatment in a manner corresponding to a rate of the patient status trend over the time span.