Heart failure monitor quicklook summary for patient management systems

An implantable medical device (IMD) for monitoring physiologic signals to monitor heart-failure patients in communication with a network-embedded data exchange system to monitor patients remotely and chronically, the medical device in combination with the data exchange system comprising:

• the IMD being in data communication with the data exchange system;
• means to transfer IHM data to said data exchange system;
• and
• means to transfer data from said data exchange system to a remote location to chronically monitor the heart-failure patients.

A heart failure monitor including a quick look summary implemented in a network having a web browser and portal interfaces to transfer and manage data from the heart failure monitor, the web browser and portal interfaces comprising:

• a patient portal;
• a physician portal;
• and
• a Medtronic portal;
• said patient, physician and Medtronic portals having shared databases and further including secure databases and encryption systems in data communications thereof.

A computer-implemented software system operating a quick look summary based on data obtained from a heart failure monitoring implantable device, the software system comprising:

• means for collecting long-term data;
• means for determining if said long-term data is in a repeatable state;
• means for retrieving data;
• means for identifying between normal and abnormal data;
• and
• means for displaying one of said normal or abnormal data.