System and method for determining a reference baseline of individual patient status for use in an automated collection and analysis patient care system

A method for determining a reference baseline of individual patient status for use in an automated collection and analysis patient care system, comprising:

• retrieving a set of collected measures from a medical device adapted to be implanted in a patient, the collected device measures set comprising individual measures which each relate to patient information recorded by the medical device adapted to be implanted during an initial time period;
• receiving the collected device measures set from the medical device adapted to be implanted over a communications link which is interfaced to a network server;
• storing the collected device measures set into a patient care record for the individual patient within a database server organized to store one or more patient care records;
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• processing the collected device measures set into a set of reference measures, each reference measure being representative of at least one of measured or derived patient information, and storing the reference measures set into the patient care record as data in a reference baseline indicating an initial patient status.

A computer-readable storage medium holding code for determining a reference baseline of individual patient status for use in an automated collection and analysis patient care system, comprising:

• retrieving a set of collected measures from a medical device adapted to be implanted in a patient, the collected device measures set comprising individual measures which each relate to patient information recorded by the medical device adapted to be implanted during an initial time period;
• receiving the collected device measures set from the medical device adapted to be implanted over a communications link which is interfaced to a network server;
• storing the collected device measures set into a patient care record for the individual patient within a database server organized to store one or more patient care records;
• and
• processing the collected device measures set into a set of reference measures, each reference measure being representative of at least one of measured or derived patient information, and storing the reference measures set into the patient care record as data in a reference baseline indicating an initial patient status.