Cardiac rhythm management patient report

• US 6,987,998 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2001
• Issued: 01/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers Incorporated (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers Incorporated (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Kalgren, James, Lanz, Mitchell
• Primary Examiner(s): Robinson, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US09/795,830
• Publication Number:
  US 20020156389A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,784 Days
• Field of Search: 600/523, 600/509, 600/528, 600/489, 340/33, 705/3, 705/2, 607/5, 607/14, 607/4
• US Class Current: 600/523
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/37247 User interfaces, e.g. input or presentation means
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture

Abstract

A patient oriented report from an implantable medical device such as a cardiac rhythm management device, e.g. a cardiac pacemaker or cardioverter/defibrillator, and a system and method for producing the same. The report provides the patient with various information regarding the treatment, type of device, manufacturer, physician, device settings, or device status.

Claims

1. A cardiac patient report generating system, comprising:

a cardiac rhythm management device;

a programming unit communicating with said cardiac rhythm management device; and

an output device connected to said programming unit, said output device producing a report for a patient, wherein said report directly informs a patient about said cardiac rhythm management device in terminology easy for a non-medically trained patient to interpret.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said output device is a printer and said report is a printed report for a patient.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said output device includes a write device and the report for a patient is stored on a removable storage media.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein said write device is an electromagnetic read/write device and the report is written electromagnetically to a removable electromagnetic storage media which is given to a patient.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein said write device is an electro-optical read/write device and the report is written electro-optically to a removable electro-optically storage media which is given to a patient.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said report includes at least one of patient'"'"'s name, physician'"'"'s name, cardiac rhythm management device manufacturer, cardiac rhythm management device model number, and cardiac rhythm management device serial number.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said cardiac rhythm management device manufacturer, cardiac rhythm management device model number, and cardiac rhythm management device serial number are stored in said cardiac rhythm management device and read by said programming unit.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein said programming unit formats said cardiac rhythm management device manufacturer, cardiac rhythm management device model number, and cardiac rhythm management device serial number into a data stream, and transmits same to said. output device.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said report includes at least one of a physician'"'"'s name, physician'"'"'s contact information and a date of a patient'"'"'s next visit to the physician.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein said cardiac rhythm management device includes leads and said report includes at least one of lead manufacturer, lead model number, and lead serial number.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein said cardiac rhythm management device is implantable in a patient and is selected from a group consisting of a cardiac pacemaker, a cardioverter/defibrillator, and a combination pacemaker/defibrillator.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein said cardiac rhythm management device is implanted in a patient and said report includes a reason for implantation.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the reason for implantation is on said report in brief medical terminology and in plain English terminology for a non-medically trained patient'"'"'s understanding.

14. The system according to claim 1, wherein said cardiac rhythm management device is a pacing device and said report includes at least one of pacing duty rate and lowest heart rate setting of the pacing device.

15. The system according to claim 1, wherein said report includes information regarding operation of said cardiac rhythm management device when a patient is active.

16. The system according to claim 1, wherein said cardiac rhythm management device is a cardioverter/defibrillator and said report includes heart shock application data.

17. The system according to claim 1, wherein said report includes a manufacturer name of said cardiac rhythm management device and manufacturer contact information.

18. The system according to claim 17, wherein said manufacturer information includes a global computer system address.

30. The system of claim 1, wherein said report directly informs a patient about said cardiac rhythm management device absent interpretation by medical personnel.

19. A medical device adapted for implantation into a patient, and a report providing information regarding said medical device, said information being understandable to a non-medically trained patient, said report comprising:

medical device identifying information;

medical device manufacturer information;

physician information; and

information specific to a relationship between said medical device and a patient.

20. The report according to claim 19, wherein said medical device identifying information includes at least one of device model number, device serial number, and device type.

21. The report according to claim 19, wherein said medical device manufacturer information includes at least one of manufacturer name, manufacturer address, manufacturer telephone number, and manufacturer global computer network address.

22. The report according to claim 19, wherein said physician information includes at least one of physician name, physician phone number, physician address, and next appointment date.

23. The report according to claim 19, wherein said information specific to a relationship between said medical device and patient includes at least one selected from a set comprising:

a reason for implantation of said medical device in terms understandable to non-medically trained patients, number of treatments by said medical device, active duty time of said medical device, and setting parameters of said medical device.

24. The medical device according to claim 19 comprising a cardiac rhythm management device.

25. A method for generating an implanted cardiac rhythm device report for a patient, wherein said report is understandable to a non-medically trained patient, comprising:

compiling implanted medical device identifying information;

compiling medical diagnosis information;

composing the medical diagnosis information in terminology understandable to non-medically trained person; and

producing a report for a patient containing implanted medical device identifying information and composed medical diagnosis information.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein compiling implanted medical device information includes inputting manufacturer name and manufacturer contact information into a computer system and outputting the manufacturer name and the contact information in the report for patient.

27. The method of claim 25 wherein compiling medical diagnosis information includes retrieving the diagnosis information from a database.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein retrieving the medical diagnosis information from the database includes reading a diagnosis code from a database stored in a memory of a computer system.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein composing the medical diagnosis information includes associating the diagnosis code with a plain English interpretation stored in a database in a memory of a computer system.