Granted Patent B2

US 12,738,366 · App. 18/196,680 · Granted Sep 15, 2026

Inventors: Nicholas Mairs (Minneapolis, MN); Brody Belland (St. Louis Park, MN); Kent Lee (Minneapolis, MN); John Rondoni (Plymouth, MN); Donovan Fellows (Lake Elmo, MN); Maxwell P. Lundeen (Minneapolis, MN)

Assignee: Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.

G16H40/20G16H10/20G16H20/30G16H40/67

Abstract

Claims (72)

1 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed cause a processing resource to:

present a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with a clinician portal, the GUI including a plurality of GUI portions that are individually and selectively displayable to present patient data for a plurality of patients based on filters for different classes of the plurality of patients, the different classes of the plurality of patients comprising a plurality of classes of non-compliant patients having implantable medical devices and the patient data comprising objective patient data indicative of stimulation therapy activity applied by the implantable medical devices to the plurality of patients.

2 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the GUI is presented on a display screen, and wherein the objective patient data indicative of stimulation therapy activity applied by the implantable medical devices comprises average rates of use of the implantable medical devices or stimulation amplitude changes for the stimulation therapy activity applied by the implantable medical devices.

3 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the different classes of the plurality of patients further comprises a class of compliant patients having implantable medical devices, wherein the patient data further comprises subjective patient data indicative of patient feedback, and further comprising instructions that when executed, cause the processing resource to:

present the GUI displaying at least one of the plurality of GUI portions populated using at least portions of the objective patient data juxtaposed with at least portions of the subjective patient data for the plurality of patients, the plurality of GUI portions including visual identification of respective ones of the patients that are categorized as at least one of the plurality of classes of non-compliant patients having implantable medical device based on the filters for the different classes of patients.

4 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions that when executed, cause the processing resource to:

receive the patient data for the plurality of patients, the patient data further comprising objective patient data indicative of patient feedback, and

present the GUI by displaying selective ones of the plurality of GUI portions on a display screen; and

in response to user selection of a filter icon on the GUI associated with one filter of the filters, present a revised GUI by:

displaying respective patient data for respective patients which are non-compliant with a criteria associated with the one filter, and are thereby classified as one of the plurality of classes of non-compliant patients, and

not displaying patient data for the remaining patients which are compliant with the criteria associated with the one filter.

5 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions that when executed, cause the processing resource to:

categorize each of plurality of patients as at least one of the different classes based on the filters, wherein respective ones of the plurality of patients are categorized as at least one of the plurality of classes of non-compliant patients having implantable medical devices based on the filters and at least one of the filters comprises a criteria associated with a stimulation amplitude change of the stimulation therapy activity applied by the implantable medical devices that differs from a reference;

implement the clinician portal and to selectively integrate the patient data comprising the objective patient data indicative of stimulation therapy activity and subjective patient data indicative of patient feedback; and

in response, present the plurality of GUI portions which are populated using at least a portion of the selectively integrated patient data and based on the categorization.

6 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions that when executed, cause the processing resource:

based on the patient data and the different classes of the plurality of patients, present a visual identification of respective ones of the plurality of patients on at least one of the plurality of GUI portions as being at least one of non-compliant patients or predicted non-compliant patients based on at least one of the filters, wherein the objective patient data indicative of the stimulation therapy activity is associated with stimulation by the implantable medical devices to the plurality of patients for treatment of sleep disordered breathing.

7 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions that when executed, cause the processing resource to display the plurality of GUI portions with expanded features visually displayed on a display screen to manage the plurality of patients by exception based on non-compliant criteria associated with the filters.

8 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of GUI portions include a main GUI display which automatically presents the plurality of classes of non-compliant patients for each of the plurality of patients and a degree of each of the classes of non-compliant patients based on the filters and as juxtaposed together, wherein areas of the main GUI display are selectable to transition to other respective ones of the GUI portions that expand on respective features.

9 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of classes of non-compliant patients include:

under-utilizing patients which utilize an implantable medical device at a rate less than a threshold;

under-surveying patients which complete a patient survey outside a threshold time period;

under-updating patients which provide a therapy-related update status outside a threshold time period;

attention-warranting-answer patients which provide an answer to a patient survey that is indicative of an issue; and

attention-warranting-titration patients exhibiting stimulation amplitude change behavior deviating from a stimulation amplitude change reference.

10 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the patient data comprises the objective patient data and subjective patient data, and the objective patient data comprises:

the applied stimulation therapy activity reported from the implantable medical devices as associated with each respective one of the plurality of patients; and

physiologic information reported from the implantable medical devices as associated with each respective one of the plurality of patients.

11 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the patient data is associated each respective patient of the plurality of patients as received from a plurality of sources selected from:

the implantable medical devices;

patient communication devices; and

clinician input to the clinician portal, wherein each of the patient communication devices comprise at least one of:

a dedicated patient remote control; or

a consumer electronic device.

12 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the patient data comprises the objective patient data and subjective patient data, and the patient remote controls are in communication with, and are to at least receive the objective patient data from, the implantable medical devices and the consumer electronic devices are in communication with, and are to at least receive the objective patient data, from the patient remote controls, wherein the objective patient data indicative of stimulation therapy activity applied by the implantable medical devices comprises average rates of use of the implantable medical devices and stimulation amplitude changes for the stimulation therapy activity applied by the implantable medical devices.

13 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions that when executed, cause the processing resource to:

based on the patient data for a patient of the plurality of patients, perform patient care by determining, within the clinician portal, a stimulation therapy to be delivered to upper airway patency-related tissue by a respective implantable medical device of the implantable medical devices to treat sleep disordered breathing.

14 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , further comprising instructions that when executed, cause the processing resource to send a signal to a stimulation element to cause delivery of a stimulation signal to the upper airway patency-related tissue.

15 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , further comprising instructions that when executed, cause the processing resource to communicate the stimulation therapy to the implantable medical device of the patient via at least one of:

a dedicated patient remote control; or

a consumer electronic device.

16 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , further comprising instructions that when executed, cause the processing resource to, based on the patient data, perform patient care by determining at least one patient management action and communicating the at least one patient management action to a patient communication device.

17 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the at least one patient management action comprises at least one of:

scheduling a patient office visit;

implementing at least one of a communication or a command to adjust parameters of stimulation therapy;

implementing at least one of a communication or a command to adjust parameters of sensing; or

implementing at least one of a communication or a command to adjust parameters of external patient monitoring.

18 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of classes of non-compliant patients comprise at least two of:

under-utilizing patients which utilize the implantable medical devices at a rate less than a threshold;

under-surveying patients which complete a patient survey outside a threshold time period;

under-updating patients which provide a therapy-related update status outside a threshold time period;

attention-warranting-answer patients which provide an answer to a patient survey that is indicative of an issue; and

attention-warranting-titration patients exhibiting stimulation amplitude change behavior of a respective implantable medical device of the implantable medical devices deviating from a stimulation amplitude change reference.

19 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the patient data comprises the objective patient data and subjective patient data, and further comprising instructions that when executed, cause the processing resource to:

receive the objective patient data from patient communication devices, the objective patient data comprising implantable medical device usage and at least one of sensed physiologic information or externally monitored information including at least one of:

cardiac information;

respiratory information;

chest motion;

oxygen desaturation information;

peripheral arterial information;

blood pressure;

body position;

acoustic information including snoring;

sleep information including at least one of time spent in bed, total sleep time, start time, stop time, or a sleep stage; or

sleep disordered breathing (SDB)-related index information.

20 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the patient data comprises the objective patient data and subjective patient data, and further comprising instructions that when executed, cause the processing resource to receive the subjective patient data from patient communication devices, the subjective patient data comprising patient survey information including at least one of:

implantable medical device usage;

comfort levels;

usage hindrances;

device visible indicators;

snoring levels; or

energy levels.

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