SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATION OF PATIENT HEALTH INFORMATION AND IMPLANT DEVICE DATA

• US 20060189877A1
• Filed: 04/24/2006
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers Incorporated (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers Incorporated (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Stahmann, Jeffrey E., Kalgren, James, Wentkowski, Rene H.
• Granted Patent: US 7,844,322 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/523
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/339 Displays specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7445 Display arrangements, e.g. multiple display units
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A system and method for correlating health related data for display. The system includes a medical device recording data and a display producing device which correlates the data and simultaneously displays different types of data or displays two sets of the same type of data along with the circumstances at which the two sets of data were recorded. Such displays aid a physician in prescribing and ascertaining the efficacy of cardiac therapies.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

storing a first data set of cardiac rhythm management data;

receiving a second data set of cardiac rhythm management data;

correlating the first data set to a second data set; and

displaying correlated data sets simultaneously on a correlation data unit.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein correlating includes transmitting data over a communication network to a correlation data unit.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein transmitting data over a communication network includes transmitting over a global computer network.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the second data set includes sensing atrial events and ventricular events and transmitting the sensed events to the correlation data unit.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein transmitting the sensed events includes sending the second data over a communication network includes transmitting over a global computer network.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein receiving the second data set includes calculating an average atrial rate from the sensed atrial events.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein receiving the second data set includes determining an average ventricular rate from sensed ventricular events.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein correlating includes loading the stored first data set that represents a first time period into the correlation data unit and correlating the second data set that represents a second time period.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein correlating includes relating the first data set to the second data set based on a non-time event.

10. A method, comprising:

storing a first data set relating to patient activity;

receiving a second data set of cardiac rhythm management data;

correlating the first data set to a second data set; and

displaying correlated data sets simultaneously on a correlation data unit.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein correlating includes relating the first data set to the second data set based on a non-time event.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the second data set includes drug therapy data.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein correlating includes correlating the first data set and the second data set with at least one of the first data set and the second data set being asynchronous data.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein storing a first data set relating to patient activity includes storing the first data set in a remote database separate from the correlation data unit.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein receiving the second data set includes collecting a plurality of data sets periodically or asynchronously.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein displaying includes using hatching to represent a change in the first data set occurring after an event occurring in the second data set.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein displaying includes changing in color to represent a change in the first data occurring after an event occurring in the second data.