System and method for processing and presenting arrhythmia information to facilitate heart arrhythmia identification and treatment

An article comprising a machine-readable medium embodying information indicative of instructions that when performed by one or more machines result in operations comprising:

• identifying atrial fibrillation events in physiological data obtained for a living being, wherein identifying atrial fibrillation events comprises examining the physiological data in multiple time intervals, and identifying intervals in which at least one atrial fibrillation event has occurred;
• obtaining heart rate data for the living being;
• receiving a human assessment of a subset of the identified atrial fibrillation events;
• and
• based on the human assessment of the subset of the identified atrial fibrillation events, pictographically presenting, using a common time scale, information regarding the heart rate data for the multiple time intervals during a defined time period in alignment with indications of atrial fibrillation activity for the identified intervals, according to the identified atrial fibrillation events, during the defined time period such that heart rate trend is presented with atrial fibrillation burden, wherein pictographically presenting information regarding the heart rate data comprises displaying for each of the multiple time intervals a range of heart rates and a heart rate average.

An apparatus comprising:

• means for identifying atrial fibrillation events in physiological data obtained for a living being based on examination of the physiological data in multiple time intervals to identify intervals in which at least one atrial fibrillation event has occurred;
• means for obtaining heart rate data for the living being;
• means for receiving a human assessment of a subset of the identified atrial fibrillation events;
• and
• means for pictographically presenting, based on the human assessment of the subset of the identified atrial fibrillation events, information regarding the heart rate data for the multiple time intervals during a defined time period in alignment with indications of atrial fibrillation activity for the identified intervals, according to the identified atrial fibrillation events, during the defined time period such that heart rate trend is presented with atrial fibrillation burden, and a range of heart rates and a heart rate average are displayed for each of the multiple time intervals.

A system for reporting information related to arrhythmia events comprising:

• a monitoring system configured to process and report physiological data, including heart rate data, for a living being, configured to identify atrial fibrillation events from the physiological data, and configured to examine the physiological data in multiple time intervals to identify intervals in which at least one atrial fibrillation event has occurred;
• a monitoring station for receiving the physiological data from the monitoring system;
• and
• a processing system configured to:
• receive a human assessment of a subset of the identified atrial fibrillation events, and
• pictographically present based on the human assessment of the subset of the identified atrial fibrillation events, information regarding the heart rate data for the multiple time intervals during a defined time period in alignment with indications of atrial fibrillation activity for the identified intervals, according to the identified atrial fibrillation events, during the defined time period such that heart rate trend is presented with atrial fibrillation burden, and a range of heart rates and a heart rate average are displayed for each of the multiple time intervals.