| CPC G16H 40/63 (2018.01) [G16H 10/20 (2018.01)] | 27 Claims |
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1. An external cardiac monitoring device for providing audio health surveys to a heart failure patient comprising:
a garment configured to be worn by the heart failure patient, the garment comprising:
a plurality of electrocardiogram (ECG) electrodes disposed in the garment and configured to couple to the heart failure patient and to acquire ECG signals of the heart failure patient over an extended period of time, and
a plurality of therapy electrodes disposed in the garment and configured to deliver a therapeutic shock to the heart failure patient;
a memory; and
circuitry, configured to communicate with the memory and the plurality of ECG electrodes, and further configured to:
monitor the ECG signals for a patient abnormality in the heart failure patient;
receive custom prompt data from a health care provider specifying a customized health care survey for the heart failure patient;
parse the custom prompt data to identify a target event detectable by the external cardiac monitoring device, a plurality of custom text prompts to be included in the health care survey, the plurality of custom text prompts comprising a plurality of questions regarding the target event, a target response to be addressed by the external cardiac monitoring device, and one or more actions that the external cardiac monitoring device is to perform based upon how the heart failure patient responds to the health care survey, a particular one of the one or more actions being associated with the target response;
detect a location of the external cardiac monitoring device;
determine one or more language-based parameters for the patient, the one or more language-based parameters comprising a language associated with the location of the cardiac monitoring device;
monitor the patient or the device for the target event;
convert the plurality of questions into an audio representation of the plurality of questions using the one or more language-based parameters comprising the language associated with the location of the cardiac monitoring device;
responsive to detecting the target event, deliver to the heart failure patient the audio representation of the plurality of questions;
receive patient responses to the audio representation of the plurality of questions;
determine that at least one of the patient responses comprises the target response to be addressed by the external cardiac monitoring device as identified from parsing the custom prompt data received from the health care provider;
perform a predetermined action in response to determining that at least one of the patient responses comprises the target response, wherein the predetermined action comprises adjusting a configurable parameter of the external cardiac monitoring device that defines a course of treatment executed by the external cardiac monitoring device to treat the heart failure patient;
provide an output report relating to the health care survey, the output report comprising a visual representation of changes in answers provided by the heart failure patient to at least one of the questions over a time period, wherein the visual representation shows answers provided by the heart failure patient over multiple performances of the health care survey; and
responsive to detecting, using the plurality of ECG electrodes, a life-threatening arrhythmia, deliver, using the plurality of therapy electrodes, one or more pacing pulses or a defibrillating shock to the patient.
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