Structured tailoring
First Claim
1. A method of performing a self-administered, behavior modification program on a blood glucose meter which comprises facilitating a structured collection procedure for an individual which helps the individual change a current behavior to a target behavior and improves compliancy with the structured collection procedure, said method comprising:
- providing the blood glucose meter loaded with the structured collection procedure and program instructions;
downloading the structured collection procedure from a server onto a client device, wherein software on the client computer serves as an interface between the server and the meter, wherein the server can only access information related to the installed version of the software and the server cannot access data in a database residing on the client device, wherein subsequent downloads of the particular structured collection procedure onto the client require access from an authorized client user;
measuring a biomarker comprising a blood glucose level with the blood glucose meter according to the structured collection procedure; and
executing the program instructions on the blood glucose meter causing a processor of the blood glucose meter to;
personalize the structured collection procedure by requesting goals from the individual to define for events to be accomplished in the structured collection procedure one or more adherence criteria that the processor uses to determine automatically whether each event was accomplished successfully and to define one or more exit criteria for ending the structured collection procedure, and requesting intervention preferences from the individual;
initiate automatically a schedule of the events defined in the structured collection procedure upon one or more entry criteria being met;
provide intervention automatically according to the intervention preferences when the one or more adherence criteria for one of the events is not met;
end automatically the structured collection procedure upon the one or more exit criteria being met, wherein the processor continues automatically with the next one of the events in the structured collection procedure until the one or more exit criteria is met; and
assign a unique identifier to the events, when the one or more adherence criteria are met, which corresponds to the events in the structured collection procedure; and
wherein the unique identifier is not assigned when the biomarker measurement is determined by the processor as not being close enough in time to a data event request based on a prescheduled time so as to facilitate the structured collection procedure and improve the compliancy with the structured collection procedure of a management system; and
providing a microprocessor, a memory, a power source, and an indicator, the indicator connected to the processor and which can operate under the control of the processor to emit audible, tactile, or visual alerts to the individual of daily times for the biomarker measurement; and
sending a message from the blood glucose meter to a physician when the individual fails to complete one of the one or more adherence criteria, wherein a communication link between a computer of the physician and the blood glucose meter can be established upon connection via the server.
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Abstract
Embodiments related to a self-administered, behavior modification program facilitated through a structured tailoring method and system thereof which accelerates and enhances the internalization process of the individual, and which provides help when the individual begins to fail in adhering or continuing with the behavior modification are disclosed. Program instructions that when executed by a processor causes a processor to initiate automatically a schedule of events of a structured tailoring procedure upon entry criteria being met at some unknown time, provide intervention according to the intervention preferences when the adherence criteria for one of the events has not been met, and end automatically the structured collection procedure upon exit criteria being met at some unknown time.
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30 Claims
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1. A method of performing a self-administered, behavior modification program on a blood glucose meter which comprises facilitating a structured collection procedure for an individual which helps the individual change a current behavior to a target behavior and improves compliancy with the structured collection procedure, said method comprising:
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providing the blood glucose meter loaded with the structured collection procedure and program instructions; downloading the structured collection procedure from a server onto a client device, wherein software on the client computer serves as an interface between the server and the meter, wherein the server can only access information related to the installed version of the software and the server cannot access data in a database residing on the client device, wherein subsequent downloads of the particular structured collection procedure onto the client require access from an authorized client user; measuring a biomarker comprising a blood glucose level with the blood glucose meter according to the structured collection procedure; and executing the program instructions on the blood glucose meter causing a processor of the blood glucose meter to; personalize the structured collection procedure by requesting goals from the individual to define for events to be accomplished in the structured collection procedure one or more adherence criteria that the processor uses to determine automatically whether each event was accomplished successfully and to define one or more exit criteria for ending the structured collection procedure, and requesting intervention preferences from the individual; initiate automatically a schedule of the events defined in the structured collection procedure upon one or more entry criteria being met; provide intervention automatically according to the intervention preferences when the one or more adherence criteria for one of the events is not met; end automatically the structured collection procedure upon the one or more exit criteria being met, wherein the processor continues automatically with the next one of the events in the structured collection procedure until the one or more exit criteria is met; and assign a unique identifier to the events, when the one or more adherence criteria are met, which corresponds to the events in the structured collection procedure; and
wherein the unique identifier is not assigned when the biomarker measurement is determined by the processor as not being close enough in time to a data event request based on a prescheduled time so as to facilitate the structured collection procedure and improve the compliancy with the structured collection procedure of a management system; andproviding a microprocessor, a memory, a power source, and an indicator, the indicator connected to the processor and which can operate under the control of the processor to emit audible, tactile, or visual alerts to the individual of daily times for the biomarker measurement; and
sending a message from the blood glucose meter to a physician when the individual fails to complete one of the one or more adherence criteria, wherein a communication link between a computer of the physician and the blood glucose meter can be established upon connection via the server. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30)
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26. A method for performing a self-administered, behavior modification program of a management system on a blood glucose meter which comprises facilitating a structured collection procedure for an individual which helps the individual change a current behavior to a target behavior, said method comprising:
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providing the blood glucose meter loaded with the structured collection procedure and program instructions, the blood glucose meter comprising; a memory which stores the structured collection procedure; and a processor connected to the memory; and measuring a biomarker comprising a blood glucose level with the blood glucose meter and digitally storing the biomarker value in the memory of the blood glucose meter according to the structured collection procedure; executing the program instructions on the blood glucose meter causing the processor of the blood glucose meter to; personalize the structured collection procedure by requesting goals from the individual to define for events to be accomplished in the structured collection procedure one or more adherence criteria that the processor uses to determine automatically whether each event was accomplished successfully and to define one or more exit criteria for ending the structured collection procedure, and requesting intervention preferences from the individual; initiate automatically a schedule of the events defined in the structured collection procedure upon one or more entry criteria being met; store in the memory data collected in accordance to the schedule; provide intervention automatically according to the intervention preferences when the one or more adherence criteria for one of the events is not met; end automatically the structured collection procedure upon the one or more exit criteria being met, wherein the processor continues automatically with the next one of the events in the structured collection procedure until the one or more exit criteria is met; assign a unique identifier to the events, when the one or more adherence criteria are met, which corresponds to the events in the structured collection procedure; and
wherein the unique identifier is not assigned when the biomarker measurement is determined by the processor as not being close enough in time to a data event request based on a prescheduled time so as to facilitate the structured collection procedure and improve the compliancy with the structured collection procedure of the management system; andproviding a microprocessor, a power source, and an indicator, the indicator connected to the processor and which can operate under the control of the processor to emit audible, tactile, or visual alerts to the individual of daily times for the biomarker measurement; and
sending a message from the blood glucose meter to a physician when the individual fails to complete one of the one or more adherence criteria, wherein a communication link between a computer of the physician and the blood glucose meter can be established upon connection via a web server.
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27. A method for performing a self-administered, behavior modification program on a blood glucose meter which comprises facilitating a structured collection procedure for an individual which helps the individual change a current behavior to a target behavior and improves compliancy with the structured collection procedure, the method comprising:
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providing the blood glucose meter loaded with a master protocol comprising sub-protocols of various structured collection procedures and program instructions, each of the various structured collection procedures address a goal that addresses the target behavior and comprises entry criteria and exit criteria, wherein entry criteria of some of the various structured collection procedures is met upon exit criteria of previous ones of the various structured collection procedures being met; and measuring a biomarker comprising a blood glucose level with the blood glucose meter and digitally storing the biomarker value in a memory of the blood glucose meter according to the structured collection procedure; and executing the program instructions on the blood glucose meter causing a processor of the blood glucose meter to; personalize the structured collection procedure by requesting goals from the individual to define for entry criteria to be accomplished in the structured collection procedure, one or more adherence criteria that the processor uses to determine automatically whether each event was accomplished successfully and to define an exit criterion for ending the structured collection procedure, and requesting intervention preferences from the individual; use the entry criteria based on invention preferences from the individual of each of the various structured collection procedures to determine automatically which of the various structured collection procedures are first enabled in the master protocol, run the master protocol with first enabled ones of the various structured collection procedures, end each of the first enabled ones of the various structured collection procedures when the exit criteria of each of the first enabled ones of the various structured collection procedures have been met, run automatically the master protocol with next ones of the various structured collection procedure having their entry criteria met by the exit criteria of the previous ones of the various structured collection procedures being met; and assign a unique identifier to the each event, when the one or more adherence criteria are met, which corresponds to the each event in the structured collection procedure; and
wherein the unique identifier is not assigned when the biomarker measurement is determined by the processor as not being close enough in time to a data event request based on a prescheduled time so as to facilitate the structured collection procedure and improve the compliancy with the structured collection procedure of a management system; andproviding a microprocessor, a power source, and an indicator, the indicator connected to the processor and which can operate under the control of the processor to emit audible, tactile, or visual alerts to the individual of daily times for the biomarker measurement; and
sending a message from the blood glucose meter to a physician when the individual fails to complete one of the one or more adherence criteria, wherein a communication link between a computer of the physician and the blood glucose meter can be established upon connection via a web server.
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