US 10,055,550 B2 · Remote management of therapy programming

Abstract

The disclosure is directed to techniques for remote management of information relating to therapy delivered to a patient by an implantable medical device (IMD). A remote monitoring system for therapy programming includes an IMD that delivers therapy, e.g., neurostimulation, drug therapy, or both, to a patient, an external programming device associated with the IMD, such as a patient programmer, and a remote networking device that receives usage information from the external programming device. The external programming device communicates with the IMD via local, wireless communication, and the remote networking device receives usage information from the external programming device via a network. The usage information includes information that relates to use of therapy by the patient, use of features of the external programming device and the IMD, or use of navigation patterns of a user interface of the external programming device.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a patient device that records usage information relating to the use, by a patient, of a therapy delivered by an implantable medical device to the patient;
and
a remote networking device that receives the usage information from the patient device via a network, wherein the remote networking device analyzes the received usage information, identifies a therapy usage pattern by the patient based on the analysis, and sends a signal to the patient device when the therapy usage pattern indicates a use of the patient device that differs from an expected use, wherein the therapy usage pattern that differs from the expected use indicates at least one of a lack of adjustments to the therapy by the patient, a lack of use of a therapy program, a failure to activate delivery of the therapy to the patient, or an unusual value for a therapy parameter of the delivered therapy.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Remote management of therapy programming

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