Medical data management system
Data related to the adherence of a patient to a therapy regime can be collected from multiple medical devices, each of which may have an incomplete data set with data entries associated with times. Each incomplete data set represents a portion of a complete data set. The data sets can be integrated to create a complete data set with data entries from each incomplete data set being arranged in a temporal sequence with respect to one another. A report may be generated, the report having the data entries of the complete data set or a function of the data entries of the complete data set.
1. A method of monitoring outpatient use of a plurality of medical devices to promote adherence of a patient to a therapy regime, the method comprising:
synchronizing a first clock of a first medical device with a second clock of a second medical device;
detecting patient use of at least one of the first medical device and the second medical device;
receiving a first data set comprising data from the first medical device;
receiving a second data set comprising data from the second medical device,
wherein the first data set is obtained from the first medical device over a first time period, and wherein the second data set is obtained from a second medical device over a second time period, and
wherein the first data set and second data set are related to the patient's adherence to the therapy regime;
comparing the first data set with the second data set;
integrating the first data set and the second data set to create a third data set,
wherein the first data set and the second data set are integrated such that the data of the first data set and the data of the second data set are arranged such that the data of the first data set and the data of the second data set are in a temporally sequential order with respect to each another; and
generating a report comprising the third data set, wherein the report comprises information summarizing the patient's adherence to the therapy regime.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the report comprises an indicator derived from the first data set and the second data set, the indicator being related to the patient's adherence to the therapy regime.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the indicator is a binary indicator indicating whether the patient succeeded or did not succeed in achieving a level of adherence to the therapy regime relative to a threshold level of adherence.
4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the indicator is a qualitative indicator and is generated by comparing a degree of adherence to one or more threshold or baseline values.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data of the first data set comprises at least one data block associated with time, and wherein the data of the second data set comprises at least one data block associated with time.
6. The method of claim 2 , wherein comparing the first data set with the second data set comprises:
checking if the first time period and the second time period are the same; and
checking whether any of the data of the first data set has a time stamp that is the same as a time stamp of any of data of the second data set.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein integrating the first data set and the second data set is executed by an intermediary device, wherein the intermediary device is a medical device or one of a desktop computer, laptop computer, tablet, mobile phone, wearable computing system, or other personal computing device.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein integrating the first data set and the second data set is executed by at least one of the first medical device or the second medical device.
9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising receiving the second data set by the first medical device from the second medical device or receiving the first data set by the second medical device from the first medical device.
10. The method of claim 8 , wherein integrating the first data set and the second data set is executed by both the first medical device and the second medical device such that each of the first medical device and the second medical device comprise a copy of the third data set.
11. A system for monitoring outpatient use of a plurality of medical devices to promote adherence of a patient to a therapy regime, the system comprising:
a first medical device;
a second medical device;
an intermediary device configured to communicate with the first medical device and the second medical device, the intermediary device configured to integrate data received from the first medical device and the second medical device, wherein the intermediary device is configured to:
receive a first data set comprising data from the first medical device obtained over a first time period, receive a second data set comprising data from a second medical device, obtained over a second time period, and wherein the first data set and second data set are related to a patient's adherence to a therapy regime,
compare the first data set with the second data set,
integrate the first data set and the second data set to create a third data set, wherein the first data set and the second data set are integrated such that the data of the first data set and the data of the second data set are arranged such that the data of the first data set and the data of the second data set are in a temporally sequential order with respect to one another, and
generate a report comprising the third data set, wherein the report comprises information summarizing the patient's adherence to the therapy regime.
12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the report comprises an indicator derived from the first data set and the second data set, the indicator being related to the patient's adherence to the therapy regime.
13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the indicator is a binary indicator indicating whether the patient succeeded or did not succeed in achieving a level of adherence to the therapy regime relative to a threshold level of adherence.
14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the indicator is a qualitative indicator and is generated by comparing a degree of adherence to one or more threshold or baseline values.
15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the data of the first data set comprises at least one data block associated with time, and wherein the data of the second data set comprises at least one data block associated with time.
16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the intermediary device is configured to compare the first data set with the second data set by:
checking if the first time period and the second time period are the same; and
checking whether any of the data of the first data set has a time stamp that is the same as a time stamp of any of the data of the second data set.
17. The system of claim 11 , wherein the intermediary device is a medical device.
18. The system of claim 11 , wherein the intermediary device is one of a desktop computer, laptop computer, tablet, mobile phone, wearable computing system, or other personal computing device.
19. The system of claim 11 , wherein at least one of the first medical device and the second medical device comprises a PAP device.
20. The system of claim 11 , wherein the first medical device comprises a first communications module and the second medical device comprises a second communication module.