Patent ID: 7955258

Claim:
A method for retrieving information from an implantable medical device, comprising: activating an ambulatory repeater; securely obtaining a cryptographic key uniquely assigned to an implantable device from the implantable device to the ambulatory repeater; interrogating the implantable medical device with the ambulatory repeater to access patient health information, wherein the patient health information comprise sensitive information and physiological measures; securely receiving sensitive information from the implantable medical device with the ambulatory repeater, wherein the sensitive information is preencrypted under the cryptographic key; non-securely receiving physiological measures retrieved from the implantable medical device via the ambulatory repeater; interfacing a base repeater with the ambulatory repeater through far field telemetric communication; opening a secure connection between the ambulatory repeater and the base repeater; securely exchanging the sensitive information from the ambulatory repeater with the base repeater; closing the secure connection between the ambulatory repeater and the base repeater; and transmitting the patient health information from the base repeater to a server.