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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2001
James D. Webb, Maple Grove, MN (US);
C. Gary Nelson, Plymouth, MN (US);
James G. Thies, Champlin, MN (US);
Ronald A. Stauffer, Princeton, MN (US);
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A system is described for allowing medical data obtained at a local site to be transferred to a data processing system located at a remote site. This medical data may include video data and/or data obtained from one or more medical devices such as a fluoroscopy device or an electrocardiograph (ECG) signal monitoring device. The data may be viewed on one or more display windows of the remote data processing system to allow a remotely-located expert to participate in an examination or medical procedure being conducted at the local site. In one embodiment, the remote data processing system also receives screen data from an implantable medical device programmer that is located at the local site. This screen data may include data associated with the configuration of the programmer, the configuration of an implantable medical device, and other information obtained from a patient such as physiological waveforms. Routing of all data may be performed by a communication hub operating as a stand alone device. Alternatively, the data routing function may be implemented on the programmer.