System and method for analyzing normalized patient voice feedback in an automated collection and analysis patient care system

• US 6,926,668 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2002
• Issued: 08/09/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cardiac Intelligence Corp (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cardiac Intelligence Corp (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Bardy, Gust H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jastrzab, Jeffrey R.
• Application Number:
  US10/251,473
• Publication Number:
  US 20030023177A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,054 Days
• Field of Search: 600/300, 600/301, 600/508, 600/509, 607/60, 607/32, 128/906, 128/920, 705/2, 705/3
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0031 Implanted circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4803 Speech analysis specially adapted for diagnostic purposes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7465 Arrangements for interactive communication between patient and care services, e.g. by using a telephone network telemetry of measured physiological signal A61B5/0002
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3627 for treating a mechanical deficiency of the heart, e.g. congestive heart failure or cardiomyopathy
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/92 Computer assisted medical diagnostics

Abstract

A system and method for analyzing normalized patient voice feedback in an automated collection and analysis patient care system is described. Device measures providing physiological measures collected by an implantable medical device on a substantially continuous basis are received for storage into a patient care record. Voice feedback spoken by an individual patient substantially contemporaneous to the collection of at least one set of the device measures is received. The voice feedback is processed into normalized quality of life measures for storage into the patient care record. The physiological measures and the quality of life measures stored in the patient care record are analyzed relative to at least one of other physiological measures and other quality of life measures to determine a patient status indicator.

Claims

1. An analysis system for providing patient physiological and voice feedback data for use in automated patient care, comprising:

a database to store a set of collected device measures and voice feedback, the collected device measures set providing quantitative health care data indicators regularly recorded by a medical device for a patient wider automated patient care, the voice feedback spoken by the patient substantially contemporaneous to the collection of the collected device measures; and

a processor to retrieve the collected device measures set and the voice feedback, to analyze the collected device measures set through derived measure determination and statistical value calculation into indicators of patient wellness, and to process the voice feedback into normalized quality of life measures for inclusion with the indicator, of patient wellness.

2. An analysis system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the collected device measures and the voice feedback is respectively compared to at least one of a collected device measures and voice feedback stored for the patient, a patient peer group, and a patient population.

3. An analysis system according to claim 1, wherein the spoken voice feedback is requested through pre-determined prompts, each such prompt being associated with a quality of life measure and parsing the spoken voice feedback in accordance with a voice grammar and speech vocabulary.