Medical data display
First Claim
1. A method of displaying values of a parameter indicative of a medical condition, comprising displaying a first graphical device indicating values of the parameter representative of a patient-specific model of normality for that parameter, and displaying a second graphical device against the first graphical device at a display position representative of a current value of the parameter.
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Abstract
A method of displaying medical data, particularly data representative of the condition of patients suffering from chronic medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes and hypertension. The display consists of two graphical elements, one of which indicates the current value of a parameter indicative of the patient'"'"'s condition, this being displayed against another graphical element which represents a model of normality for that patient. The graphical element indicating the current condition may be, for example, a needle, against a scale which is constructed according to the patient-specific model of normality. This is particularly advantageous in the case of displays which have a small display area, such as mobile telephones and PDAs. Other forms of display are disclosed, such as histograms with the display being dynamically colour-coded and auto-scaled, or displays including limits which may vary. Another form of display is also disclosed which illustrates administrations of a pharmacological agent and corresponding measurements of the patient'"'"'s condition, with a visual link such as colour-coding linking the administration to the corresponding condition measurement. For example several days of insulin administration dosages may be displayed alongside several days of blood glucose measurements, with the administrations colour-coded to the corresponding blood glucose measurement, to assist the patient in determining whether the insulin administration is stably controlling their condition.
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39 Claims
- 1. A method of displaying values of a parameter indicative of a medical condition, comprising displaying a first graphical device indicating values of the parameter representative of a patient-specific model of normality for that parameter, and displaying a second graphical device against the first graphical device at a display position representative of a current value of the parameter.
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31. A method of displaying data indicative of the control of a medical condition by administration of a pharmacologically active agent, comprising:
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acquiring as said data a plurality of sets of measured values of a parameter indicative of said medical condition, each set comprising a plurality of measured values of said parameter during a predetermined time period, and a plurality of sets of values of administration of said pharmacologically active agent, each set comprising a plurality of administration values during each of said predetermined time periods;
displaying in a first display area a plot of the measured values of the parameter from all of said sets against a time axis representing a single predetermined time period;
displaying in a second, adjacent display area a time plot of the values of administrations of said pharmacologically active agent from all of said sets against a time axis representing a single predetermined time period;
displaying a visual link between each pair of displayed values formed by an administration value and the measured value of the parameter corresponding to response of the medical condition to that administration, said visual link being common for corresponding pairs from each of the sets and visually-distinguishing the different pairs in each set from each other. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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