EVENT-DRIVEN METHOD FOR TUTORING A USER IN THE DETERMINATION OF AN ANALYTE IN A BODILY FLUID SAMPLE

• US 20080057484A1
• Filed: 10/30/2006
• Published: 03/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Kabushiki Kaisha (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Kabushiki Kaisha (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Arndt, Carrie, Miyata, Shinichi, Anderson, Gretchen, Sutton, Thomas Rangi
• Application Number:
  US11/554,506
• Publication Number:
  US 20080057484A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/379
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0295 Strip shaped analyte sensors for apparatus classified in A61B5/145 or A61B5/157 disposable multilayered or laminated electrodes G01N27/307; details of handling chemical test elements G01N33/4875
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150022 for capillary blood or interstitial fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150198 Depth adjustment mechanism at the proximal end of the carrier of the piercing element
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150259 Improved gripping, e.g. with high friction pattern or projections on the housing surface or an ergonometric shape
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150305 Packages specially adapted for piercing devices or blood sampling devices kits for diabetes A61M5/003; packaging in general B65D
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150358 Strips for collecting blood, e.g. absorbent optical reagent test strips G01N21/8483; chemical reagent test strips G01N33/4875, G01N33/52
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150412 Pointed piercing elements, e.g. needles, lancets for piercing the skin blade-like piercing elements A61B5/150442
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150503 Single-ended needles hollow piercing element tip design A61B5/150396, needle sets for catheters A61M25/06, needles for bringing media into the body A61M5/32
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150549 Protectors removed by rotational movement, e.g. torsion or screwing
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150618 Integrally moulded protectors, e.g. protectors simultaneously moulded together with a further component, e.g. a hub, of the piercing element
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150717 manually removed
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150824 by visual feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15113 Manually triggered, i.e. the triggering requires a deliberate action by the user such as pressing a drive button
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1519 comprising driving means, e.g. a spring, for propelling the piercing unit
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/157 Devices characterised by integrated means for measuring characteristics of blood
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick

Abstract

A method for tutoring a user in use of a kit for determining an analyte (such as glucose) in a bodily fluid sample (for example a whole blood sample) includes activating an analytical meter of the kit, with the analytical meter including a display-based tutorial module. In addition, the display-based tutorial module includes a user interface with a visual display, a memory unit storing a tutorial, and a microprocessor unit configured for controlling and coordinating the user interface and the memory unit. Moreover, the tutorial stored in the memory unit has chapters with each of the chapters containing one or more tutorial images depicting use of the kit. In addition, the user interface, microprocessor unit and memory unit are operatively linked and configured for event-driven chapter-based display of the tutorial images to a user on the visual display. The method also includes tutoring the user on use of the kit by displaying the tutorial images in an event-driven chapter-based manner.

Claims

1. A method for tutoring a user in use of a kit for determining an analyte in a bodily fluid sample, the method comprising:

activating an analytical meter of a kit for determining an analyte in a bodily fluid sample, the analytical meter including;

a display-based tutorial module with;

a user interface that includes a visual display;

a memory unit storing a tutorial, the tutorial having a plurality of chapters with each of the plurality of chapters containing at least one tutorial image depicting use of the kit; and

a microprocessor unit configured for controlling and coordinating at least the user interface and the memory unit,

wherein the user interface, microprocessor unit and memory unit are operatively linked and configured for event-driven chapter-based display of the tutorial images to a user on the visual display, and

tutoring the user on use of the kit by displaying the tutorial images in an event-driven chapter-based manner.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the analytical meter is configured for determination of glucose in a whole blood sample.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein display-based tutorial module includes a user-operable tutorial button, and

wherein the event-driven chapter-based display of the tutorial images in the tutoring step includes at least one event-driven chapter-based display driven by an event of the user depressing the user operable tutorial button.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the event-driven chapter-based display of the tutorial images in the tutoring step includes a sequence of animated tutorial images.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the visual display is configured to display an analyte concentration.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the event-driven chapter-based display of tutorial images in the tutoring step is based on an analytical strip insertion into the analytical meter event.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the event-driven chapter-based display of tutorial images in the tutoring step is based on an bodily fluid dosing event.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the event-driven chapter-based display of the tutoring step includes display of tutorial images depicting bodily fluid dosing.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the event-driven chapter-based display of the tutoring step includes display of tutorial images depicting analytical test strip insertion into the analytical meter.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the event-driven chapter-based display of the tutoring step includes display of tutorial images depicting a simulated determination of an analyte in a bodily fluid sample by the analytical meter.