Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (eswl) system and method using in-situ sensing of system and device data and therapeutic/system/device level control

A system for enhancing efficacy for therapeutic or operational outcomes of an extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) patient therapy, comprising:

• a plurality of hardware devices configured to produce a focused acoustic shockwave coincident with a patient's kidney stone;
• one or more sensors embedded in-situ with said hardware devices, said sensors configured to sense data including operating parameters and outputs of a plurality of the hardware devices;
• a system sensor data acquisition and storage assembly configured to capture data from the sensors during operation of the ESWL system to control the plurality of hardware devices to produce the focused acoustic shockwave;
• and
• a therapy optimization engine to determine a positive ESWL therapy outcome by correlating a plurality of input measurements;
• wherein the input measurements each comprise a statistically significant data set.