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Abstract

A 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 is described. A set of collected measures recorded by a medical device adapted to be implanted in an individual patient is processed into a set of reference measures. The reference measures set is stored into a patient care record as data in a reference baseline indicating an initial patient status. The patient care record is stored within a database server. The collected device measures set includes 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 is representative of at least one of measured or derived patient information. A set of collected measures is periodically received from the medical device adapted to be implanted over a communications link which is interfaced to a network server. The collected device measures set includes individual measures which each relate to patient information recorded by the medical device adapted to be implanted subsequent to the initial time period. The subsequently collected device measures set is stored into the patient care record for the individual patient. One or more of the subsequently collected device measures sets in the patient care record are compared to the reference measures set. Any such subsequently collected measure substantially non-conforming to the corresponding reference measure is identified.

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