GRAPHICAL DISPLAY FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL PATIENT DATA

• US 20090113295A1
• Filed: 10/30/2007
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Medtronic Minimed Incorporated (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Medtronic Minimed Incorporated (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Talbot, Cary, Halpern, Arieh S.
• Application Number:
  US11/929,979
• Publication Number:
  US 20090113295A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/273
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B

Abstract

An intuitive graphical display as described herein can be rendered by a host device that obtains physiological patient data (such as blood glucose values) in real time or substantially real time. The graphical display includes a calibrated bar graph having a desired measurement range for the monitored parameter. The graphical display also includes a dynamic measurement value indicator that moves along the bar graph in a manner that tracks the current value of the monitored physiological characteristic. The graphical display may also incorporate easy-to-interpret display elements that allow the user to quickly determine whether the current value of the monitored physiological characteristic is within or outside a normal range, whether the monitored physiological characteristic is rising or falling, and the approximate rate of change of the monitored physiological characteristic.

Claims

1-34. -34. (canceled)

35. An electronic device having rendered thereon an intuitive graphical display of physiological patient data, comprising:

a calibrated bar graph that indicates a measurement range for a monitored physiological characteristic; and

a measurement value pointer that moves along the calibrated bar graph to indicate a current value of the monitored physiological characteristic and a direction of change of the monitored physiological characteristic.

36. The electronic device of claim 35, wherein the intuitive graphical display of physiological patient data further comprises a text field that alphanumerically indicates the current value of the monitored physiological characteristic.

37. The electronic device of claim 36, wherein the text field moves along the calibrated bar graph concurrently with the measurement value pointer.

38. The electronic device of claim 36, wherein display characteristics of the text field change in response to the current value of the monitored physiological characteristic.

39. The electronic device of claim 35, wherein the intuitive graphical display of physiological patient data further comprises a control button field that, when activated, initiates a control function of the electronic device.

40. The electronic device of claim 35, wherein display characteristics of the measurement value pointer change in response to the current value of the monitored physiological characteristic.

41. The electronic device of claim 35, wherein the intuitive graphical display of physiological patient data further comprises a rate of change pointer that indicates the rate of change of the monitored physiological characteristic.

42. The electronic device of claim 41, wherein the rate of change pointer has a displayed length that corresponds to the magnitude of the rate of change of the monitored physiological characteristic.

43. The electronic device of claim 35, wherein the measurement value pointer comprises a rate of change pointer that indicates the direction of change of the monitored physiological characteristic and the rate of change of the monitored physiological characteristic.

44. The electronic device of claim 43, wherein the rate of change pointer has a displayed length that corresponds to the magnitude of the rate of change of the monitored physiological characteristic.

45. The electronic device of claim 43, wherein the rate of change pointer has a displayed angle, relative to a major axis of the calibrated bar graph, that corresponds to the magnitude of the rate of change of the monitored physiological characteristic.

46. The electronic device of claim 35, wherein the intuitive graphical display of physiological patient data further comprises a text field that alphanumerically indicates a predicted value of the monitored physiological characteristic.

47. The electronic device of claim 46, wherein the text field moves along the calibrated bar graph concurrently with the measurement value pointer.

48. The electronic device of claim 35, wherein the measurement value pointer has a length that extends to indicate a predicted value of the monitored physiological characteristic.

49. In an electronic device having an electronic display, a method of providing an intuitive graphical display of physiological patient data, the method comprising:

obtaining data corresponding to a monitored physiological characteristic;

generating, for display on the electronic display, a graphical element comprising a calibrated bar graph that indicates a measurement range for the monitored physiological characteristic, and a measurement value pointer that moves along the calibrated bar graph to indicate a current value of the monitored physiological characteristic and a direction of change of the monitored physiological characteristic; and

rendering the graphical element on the electronic display.

50. The method of claim 49, wherein a displayed color of the measurement value pointer changes in response to the current value of the monitored physiological characteristic.

51. The method of claim 49, wherein the graphical element further comprises a rate of change pointer that indicates the rate of change of the monitored physiological characteristic.

52. The method of claim 49, wherein the measurement value pointer comprises a rate of change pointer that indicates the direction of change of the monitored physiological characteristic and the rate of change of the monitored physiological characteristic.

53. The method of claim 49, wherein the electronic device is a device selected from the group consisting of:

a patient-wearable monitor;

a patient-wearable fluid infusion pump;

a remote display monitor;

a patient monitor;

a measurement device for the monitored physiological characteristic;

a wireless telephone;

a computing device;

a television;

a personal digital assistant;

a digital media player; and

a portable video game device.

54. A method for displaying, on an electronic display of a device, an intuitive graphical display of physiological patient data, the method comprising:

obtaining, at the device, data corresponding to a monitored physiological characteristic;

displaying, on the electronic display, a bar graph that indicates a measurement range for the monitored physiological characteristic; and

displaying, on the electronic display, a measurement value pointer that indicates a current value of the monitored physiological characteristic on the bar graph, and that indicates a direction of change of the monitored physiological characteristic.

55. The method of claim 54, further comprising displaying, on the electronic display and in conjunction with the bar graph and the measurement value pointer, a text field that alphanumerically indicates the current value of the monitored physiological characteristic.

56. The method of claim 54, further comprising displaying, on the electronic display and in conjunction with the bar graph and the measurement value pointer, a rate of change pointer that indicates the rate of change of the monitored physiological characteristic.

57. The method of claim 54, wherein the measurement value pointer comprises a rate of change pointer that indicates the direction of change of the monitored physiological characteristic and the rate of change of the monitored physiological characteristic.