System and method for correlating implant and non-implant data

1. A patient monitoring system for analyzing cardiac data acquired from a patient having an electronic cardiac implant, the system comprising:

a transmitter that generates a polling signal;

a receiver that receives implant data when the implant responds to the polling signal;

a computer-readable medium encoded with a software program, the software program sets forth rules for:

a data acquisition module that acquires non-implant cardiac data from the patient, wherein the data acquisition module is not coupled with the receiver, and

an analysis module that correlates the implant cardiac data and the non-implant cardiac data and generates a signature pattern from the correlation; and

a processor, the processor configured to execute the software program and carry out the rules for the data acquisition module and the analysis module.

2. The system of claim 1 and further comprising a wireless device operable to interrogate the implant, receive the implant cardiac data, and transmit the implant cardiac data to the receiver.

3. The system of claim 1 and further comprising a network wherein the patient monitoring system is adapted to communicate with additional devices that are connected to the network.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the data acquisition module acquires via the network implant cardiac data and non-implant cardiac data stored in the additional devices.

5. The system of claim 1 and further comprising displaying at least one of the non-implant cardiac data, the implant cardiac data, and the signature pattern on a display monitor remote from the patient monitoring system.