| abstract |
A system and method for determining a reference baseline of individual patient status for use in an automated collection and analysis patient care system is described. A set of collected measures is retrieved from a medical device. The collected device measures set includes individual measures, which each relate to patient information recorded by the medical device during an initial time period, and is received from the medical device over a communications link, which is interfaced to a network server. The collected device measures set is stored into a patient care record for the patient within a database server organized to store one or more patient care records and is processed into a set of reference measures. Each reference measure is representative of at least one of measured or derived patient information and is stored into the patient care record as data in a reference baseline indicating an initial patient status. |