Automatic validation techniques for validating operation of medical devices

A system for automatically testing a medical device, comprising:

• a therapy delivery module to deliver therapy to a patient according to therapy parameter values;
• a sensor to sense patient parameter values indicative of one or more posture states assumed by the patient while the therapy is being delivered;
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• an automated system coupled to receive the patient parameter values and the therapy parameter values, to reproduce conditions indicated by the patient parameter values, and to validate that the medical device provides therapy according to the therapy parameter values while the medical device is subjected to the reproduced conditions.

A system to automatically verify operation of an implantable medical device, comprising:

• a first implantable medical device carried by a patient to deliver therapy to the patient according to therapy parameter values;
• a sensor carried by the patient to sense posture states assumed by the patient during delivery of the therapy;
• an automated device to automatically re-create the posture states;
• an automated programmer to automatically generate at least some of the therapy parameter values;
• a second implantable medical device to deliver therapy in response to the automatically-generated therapy parameter values while being subjected to the automatically re-created posture states;
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• compare logic communicatively coupled to the second implantable medical device to determine whether the therapy delivered by the second implantable medical device is substantially similar to the therapy delivered by the first implantable medical device.