System and method for correlating implant and non-implant data

• US 7,415,304 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2004
• Issued: 08/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GE Medical Systems Information Technologies Incorporated (GE Healthcare Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: GE Medical Systems Information Technologies Incorporated (GE Healthcare Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Albert, David E., Rowlandson, G. Ian
• Primary Examiner(s): Layno; Carl H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MORALES, JON ERIC C
• Application Number:
  US10/824,964
• Publication Number:
  US 20050234356A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,587 Days
• Field of Search: 600/510, 600/513, 600/515, 607/60, 607/59, 607/32, 607/513, 607/9, 607/27, 607/30, 128/903
• US Class Current: 600/513
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/35 by template matching
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/366 Detecting abnormal QRS complex, e.g. widening

Abstract

A system and method for analyzing cardiac data acquired from a patient having an implant. The system can acquire non-implant cardiac data and implant cardiac data from the patient. The system can synchronize the non-implant cardiac data and the implant cardiac data and can correlate the non-implant cardiac data with the implant cardiac data to determine a cardiac condition of the patient.

Claims

1. A patient monitoring system for analyzing cardiac data acquired from a patient having an electronic cardiac implant, the system comprising:

a transmitter that generates a polling signal;

a receiver that receives implant data when the implant responds to the polling signal;

a computer-readable medium encoded with a software program, the software program sets forth rules for;

a data acquisition module that acquires non-implant cardiac data from the patient, wherein the data acquisition module is not coupled with the receiver, and

an analysis module that correlates the implant cardiac data and the non-implant cardiac data and generates a signature pattern from the correlation; and

a processor, the processor configured to execute the software program and carry out the rules for the data acquisition module and the analysis module.

2. The system of claim 1 and further comprising a wireless device operable to interrogate the implant, receive the implant cardiac data, and transmit the implant cardiac data to the receiver.

3. The system of claim 1 and further comprising a network wherein the patient monitoring system is adapted to communicate with additional devices that are connected to the network.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the data acquisition module acquires via the network implant cardiac data and non-implant cardiac data stored in the additional devices.

5. The system of claim 1 and further comprising displaying at least one of the non-implant cardiac data, the implant cardiac data, and the signature pattern on a display monitor remote from the patient monitoring system.