Method and system for categorizing blood glucose tests at test time in a portable device or later in a downloading program and then analyzing the categories separately
First Claim
1. A method for manually assigning digital categories to blood glucose tests (BG'"'"'s) in a diabetic patient'"'"'s portable blood glucose meter, insulin pump or other portable device by the patient at the time of testing by manual activation of a physical button or a selector on an LCD screen, wherein the categories may include but are not limited to pre-meal, post-meal, disregard, or other categories determined by the user, or wherein the button or selector has no label but its meaning may be understood by the patient and the practitioner, wherein the activation of the button or selector may allow one of two values or may allow a text string.
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Abstract
A four-part method for analyzing data of a patient'"'"'s blood glucose (BG) tests or other parameters e.g. carbohydrate intakes and discrete insulin doses (boluses): 1. An LCD-button on the portable glucose meter or insulin pump, that allows flagging or assigning a category to each blood glucose test at test-time. Examples of categories: pre-meal BG tests, post-meal BG tests. 2. In the computer-based downloading program, features for changing the boundaries of the meal-oriented time-intervals by the faster methods of: a) mouse-dragging the time-boundary lines on a scatter chart, b) placing stretchable rectangles around the data points of interest. 3. Features in the computer-based downloading program, for digitally identifying the time of the meal and digitally assigning the category to the pre-meal BG tests and to the post-meal BG tests. 4. Features in the computer-based downloading program, for statistically analyzing and graphically-displaying the differently-categorized data separately or together in combinations.
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72 Claims
- 1. A method for manually assigning digital categories to blood glucose tests (BG'"'"'s) in a diabetic patient'"'"'s portable blood glucose meter, insulin pump or other portable device by the patient at the time of testing by manual activation of a physical button or a selector on an LCD screen, wherein the categories may include but are not limited to pre-meal, post-meal, disregard, or other categories determined by the user, or wherein the button or selector has no label but its meaning may be understood by the patient and the practitioner, wherein the activation of the button or selector may allow one of two values or may allow a text string.
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- 13. An improvement the computer-based programs that download blood glucose meters, insulin pumps and other devices (downloading programs), for analyzing and graphically-displaying a plurality of differently-categorized data separately, all together, or together in combinations smaller than the total, wherein said combinations may employ differently-colored and/or differently-shaped markers for the BG'"'"'s of different categories, and wherein mouse-based computer interface methods may be used to select BG'"'"'s into time intervals.
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- 62. An improvement for computer-based programs that download the portable devices (downloading programs) wherein digital categories of pre-meal and post-meal are digitally are assigned to BG'"'"'s within pre-meal and post-meal time windows which are individually determined for every meal-containing interval of every day, wherein each meal time is determined as the time of the first meal bolus in a time interval and wherein a post-meal time window is located in time relative to each day'"'"'s meal time for the interval and extends from a delay-time after the meal to an ending time after the meal, and wherein post-meal BG'"'"'s, carbohydrate intakes, Meal Boluses, Correction Boluses, and Insulin Remaining amounts are identified as post-meal if they fall inside the post-meal time window or identified as pre-meal if they fall inside a pre-meal time window.
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