Acute health event monitoring and verification

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12558036-B2
Application number	US-202218549400-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 10, 2022
Priority date	Mar 8, 2021
Publication date	Feb 24, 2026
Grant date	Feb 24, 2026

Abstract

Devices, systems, and techniques are disclosed for verifying the occurrence of an acute health event. An example device includes communication circuitry configured to receive a communication indicative of an acute health event of a patient and memory communicatively coupled to the communication circuitry and being configured to store the indication of the acute health event. The device includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the communication circuitry and the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to, in response to the communication, verify the acute health event and based on the verification of the acute health event, send an alert regarding the acute health event.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A device comprising:
communication circuitry configured to receive a communication from an implantable medical device indicative of an acute health event of a patient; memory communicatively coupled to the communication circuitry and being configured to store the indication of the acute health event; and processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the communication circuitry and the memory, the processing circuitry being configured to:
in response to the communication, determine physiological parameters of the patient based on values sensed by one or more sensors in another device;
verify the acute health event based on the determined physiological parameters; and
based on the verification of the acute health event, send an alert regarding the acute health event,
wherein the another device is different than the implantable medical device.

2 . The device of claim 1 , wherein processing circuitry is further configured to prompt the patient to provide a response.

3 . The device of claim 1 wherein the device comprises a computing device.

4 . The device of claim 3 , wherein the computing device comprises a smartphone, a wearable device, an Internet of Things device.

5 . The device of claim 2 , wherein the response is at least one of an audible response indicative of the patient not having experienced the acute health event or a tactile response indicative of the patient not having experienced the acute health event.

6 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the communication circuitry is further configured to receive information from at least one of an Internet of Things (IOT) device, a drone, or a robot, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to verify the acute health event based on the information.

7 . The device of claim 6 , wherein the received information is from an IoT device and the IoT device comprises at least one of a video camera, audio recording, an infrared camera, a thermal camera, a radar system, a sonar system, a lidar system, a bed sensor, a smart speaker, or a smart television.

8 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:
based on the verification of the acute health event, control the communication circuitry to transmit a communication to a robot instructing the robot to medically intervene with the patient.

9 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the physiological parameters of the patient comprise at least one of pulse rate, blood perfusion, breathing rate, breathing intensity, posture, facial features, color of a face, or an electrocardiogram.

10 . The device of claim 1 , wherein as part of verifying the acute health event, the processing circuitry is configured to determine whether the physiological parameters of the patient meet predefined criteria.

11 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:
determine a location of the patient.

12 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:
open smart locks.

13 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the alert comprises at least one of a telephone call, a short message service message, an email, a web alert, a security system alert, a social media alert, an audible alert, a visual alert, or a haptic alert.

14 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the alert comprises data indicative of physiological parameters of the patient.

15 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the acute health event comprises at least one of sudden cardiac arrest, stroke, acute myocardial infarction, or anaphylactic shock.

16 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the acute health event comprises a fall, and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to collect data from one or more of a camera, a glucose sensor, or a blood pressure sensor in response to the communication.

17 . The device of claim 16 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:
determine whether an arrhythmia preceded the fall; and determine whether to send the alert to a recipient based whether an arrhythmia preceded the fall.

18 . A system comprising:
processing circuitry; and memory comprising program instructions that, when executed by processing circuity, cause the processing circuitry to:
receive data source information for a patient and consent information for the patient;
determine a clinical data collection schedule for the patient based on the data source information and the consent information; and
collect clinical data of the patient from a plurality of data sources according to the clinical data collection schedule.

19 . The system of claim 18 , wherein the data source information identifies one or more data source devices of the patient.

20 . The system comprising of claim 19 , wherein, to collect the clinical data of the patient, the processing circuitry is configured to control the one or more data source devices to collect the clinical data according to the clinical data collection schedule for the patient.

Assignees

• Medtronic Inc

Inventors

• Krause Paul G
• Stadler Robert W
• Degroot Paul J
• Wyszynski Ryan D
• Connolly Megan
• Neitzell Grant A
• Sarkar Shantanu
• Koch Christopher D
• Cho Yong K
• Natera Ana C
• Ousdigian Kevin T
• Demmer Wade M
• Jejurkar Abhijit P

Classifications

• A61B5/746

  Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms · CPC title

• A61B5/7282

  Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition (cough events A61B5/0823; seizures A61B5/4094; sleep apnoea A61B5/4818) · CPC title

• A61B5/686

  Permanently implanted devices, e.g. pacemakers, other stimulators, biochips (A61B5/6861 takes precedence) · CPC title

• A61B5/1117

  Fall detection · CPC title

• G16H50/30

  for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment · CPC title