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A system and method of operation thereof for storing patient related data within an implanted medical device and retrieving and regenerating the patient related data using a generative grammar and graphic user-interface software in a programmer having uplink and downlink telemetry capabilities. A ge

A system and method of operation thereof for storing patient related data within an implanted medical device and retrieving and regenerating the patient related data using a generative grammar and graphic user-interface software in a programmer having uplink and downlink telemetry capabilities. A generative grammar resident in the programmer is selected, and it prompts a physician or other user to enter patient specific variables by selecting menu choices or making data entries in data entry fields which generated by grammar rules while constructing a textual narrative report about the patient in a human language. Simultaneously, in the programmer, a digital patient related data bit string is assembled that identifies the generative grammar and encodes the choices and values as they are entered by the physician. Also simultaneously, internal computer records of the patient related data are stored in computer memory. The generative grammar invokes text and menus or data entry fields for the continuing narrative that depend upon the preceding narrative in a grammatically correct manner. When the narrative is completed, the simultaneously generated bit string is stored in the implanted medical device using conventional downlink telemetry. The stored bit string may be telemetered out on command and decoded to identify the generative grammar and then to use the generative grammar to regenerate the textual narrative in either the original human language or in an alternative human language for which a corresponding generative grammar exists in the programmer.

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In a system for storing patient related data within an implanted medical device implanted in an ambulatory patient and for regenerating the patient related information with an external programmer of the type comprising a medical device telemetry transceiver in the implanted medical device operable i

In a system for storing patient related data within an implanted medical device implanted in an ambulatory patient and for regenerating the patient related information with an external programmer of the type comprising a medical device telemetry transceiver in the implanted medical device operable in a downlink telemetry mode for receiving patient related data bit strings and operable in an uplink telemetry mode for transmitting patient related data bit strings and memory locations in the implanted medical device for storing patient related data bit strings transmitted in downlink telemetry to the implanted medical device telemetry transceiver, a method of composing and storing textual narrative patient related data in such memory locations employing such an external programmer capable of initiating said uplink and downlink telemetry comprising the steps of: storing a generative grammar defining a finite set of variables, and a set of grammar rules from which a textual narrative of patient related data can be generated by appropriate selections of choices from menus and values of variables; encoding selections of choices from menus and values from variables as a patient related data bit string; and operating said programmer telemetry transceiver in said downlink telemetry mode for signaling said implanted medical device telemetry transceiver to operate in said downlink telemetry mode and for transmitting said patient related data bit strings to said implanted medical device telemetry transceiver for receipt and storage in said implanted medical device memory locations.