Patent ID: 8702603

Claim:
An apparatus for automated patient management, comprising: an identification module to receive information comprising treatment profile and medical history to identify a patient for enrollment in automated patient management; a collected measures module to receive collected device measures as raw physiometry for the patient regularly recorded by a medical device, beginning with an initial observation period; a derived measures module to receive derived device measures as derivative physiometry based on the collected device measures; a quality of life module to receive quality of life measures over the initial observation period contemporaneous to recordation of the collected device measures, wherein the quality of life measures provide a self-assessment of physical and emotional well-being by the patient; a processing module to process the collected and derived device measures and the quality of life measures into a reference baseline comprising a set of reference measures; an acceptance module to receive acceptance parameters as a threshold for the reference measures in the reference baseline to determine automated patient care eligibility, wherein the acceptance parameters are indicator values consistent with the presence of some form of chronic yet stable disease, which does not require immediate emergency care; and a processor to execute the modules.