System and method for monitoring a patient status for an individual patient using a reference baseline in an automated collection and analysis patient care system

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

• processing a set of collected measures recorded by a medical device adapted to be implanted in an individual patient into a set of reference measures and storing the reference measures set into a patient care record as data in a reference baseline indicating an initial patient status, the patient care record being stored within a database server, the collected device measures set comprising individual measures which each relate to patient information recorded by the medical device adapted to be implanted throughout an initial time period, each reference measure being representative of at least one of measured or derived patient information;
• periodically receiving a set of collected measures from the medical device adapted to be implanted over a communications link which is interfaced to a network server, the collected device measures set comprising individual measures which each relate to patient information recorded by the medical device adapted to be implanted subsequent to the initial time period;
• storing the subsequently collected device measures set into the patient care record for the individual patient;
• and
• comparing one or more of the subsequently collected device measures sets in the patient care record to the reference measures set and identifying any such subsequently collected measure substantially non-conforming to the corresponding reference measure.

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

• processing a set of collected measures recorded by a medical device adapted to be implanted in an individual patient into a set of reference measures and storing the reference measures set into a patient care record as data in a reference baseline indicating an initial patient status, the patient care record being stored within a database server, the collected device measures set comprising individual measures which each relate to patient information recorded by the medical device adapted to be implanted throughout an initial time period, each reference measure being representative of at least one of measured or derived patient information;
• periodically receiving a set of collected measures from the medical device adapted to be implanted over a communications link which is interfaced to a network server, the collected device measures set comprising individual measures which each relate to patient information recorded by the medical device adapted to be implanted subsequent to the initial time period;
• storing the subsequently collected device measures set into the patient care record for the individual patient;
• and
• comparing one or more of the subsequently collected device measures sets in the patient care record to the reference measures set and identifying any such subsequently collected measure substantially non-conforming to the corresponding reference measure.