Patent ID: 8731680

Claim:
A therapeutic system comprising: an implantable therapeutic unit, comprising a control unit; a memory connected to the control unit; a telemetry unit connected at least indirectly to the control unit for wireless bidirectional transmission of data to and from an external device; a detection unit configured to detect physiological data of a patient or operational data of said implantable therapeutic unit; wherein the control unit is configured to trigger an outgoing data transmission from the implantable therapeutic unit to the external device based on preselected therapeutic-device-internal events and establish a standby mode for reception on part of the telemetry unit to receive a beginning portion or header of an incoming data transmission from the external device to the implantable therapeutic unit within a preselected response time window after the outgoing data transmission from the implantable therapeutic unit to the external device or within a reception time window at times preset in the implantable therapeutic unit; wherein said incoming data transmission comprises an acknowledgement configured to signal to the implanted therapeutic unit that the outgoing data transmission was successful such that a prompt for a renewed outgoing data transmission containing the data is not required; wherein said incoming data transmission further comprises follow-up signaling data that signals a coming or future time for a follow-up examination; wherein the control unit is also configured to prompt a sensor unit at a preselected point in time in response to receipt of the follow-up signaling data to detect detected data at said future time comprising preselected required physiological data or operational data of the implantable therapeutic unit for a follow-up examination and to store detected data in the memory at said future time without storing said detected data in the memory at time of programming and transmit the detected data together with a subsequent outgoing data transmission to the external device; wherein the implantable therapeutic unit has a time and date transducer connected to the control unit, and wherein the control unit is configured in response to receipt of follow-up signaling data, to extract from the follow-up data a date of a coming or future follow-up examination and to determine a point in time for a preliminary examination to occur a preselected amount of time before the extracted date for the coming follow-up examination, and wherein said control unit is configured to prompt the sensor unit at the point in time of the preliminary examination as the preselected point in time to detect the preselected required physiological data or operational data for the coming or future follow-up examination.