Patent ID: 7594889

Claim:
A system comprising: means for receiving a protocol for conducting a clinical study of a drug; an implantable sensor for collecting study data from a plurality of patients enrolled in the study; means for receiving the study data remotely from each of the plurality of patients enrolled in the study; means for processing the received data according to the protocol to generate a conclusory output indicating a result of a current phase of the clinical study; means for evaluating a response to an intake of the clinical trial drug of each of the plurality of patients based on the processed data; means for developing a trend of a disease state for each of the plurality of patients based on the response; means for predicating the occurrence of an adverse effect based on the developed trend; means for evaluating patient safety based on the prediction of the occurrence of an adverse effect; means for evaluating the risks to patient safety; means for providing feedback to the patient based on the evaluation of the risk patient safety; and means for determining the mode of the feedback to the patient based on the evaluation of the risk to patient safety.