Apparatus and method for monitoring blood glucose levels including convenient diplay ofblood glucose value average and constituent values
First Claim
1. A method of annunciating a patient'"'"'s medical data levels using a medical data level monitoring device comprising the steps of:
- storing medical data levels with the corresponding dates and times of day the respective medical data levels were taken;
calculating an average medical data level from at least a first medical data level and a second medical data level selected from the stored medical data levels;
annunciating said average medical data level;
receiving a first user input to annunciate said first medical data level;
annunciating said first medical data level;
receiving a second user input to annunciate said second medical data level; and
annunciating said second medical data level;
wherein the average medical data level calculation uses n of said stored medical data levels, where n is an integer greater than 2 and said n stored medical data levels are constituent values of said average medical data level that comprise said first medical data level and said second medical data level; and
wherein, when said average medical data level and said constituent values are annunciated using a display screen, the display screen comprises a first area for displaying one of the average medical data level and said constituent values, and a second area configured to simultaneously display n indicators corresponding to respective ones of said constituent values with the n indicator corresponding to a currently displayed one of said constituent values being displayed differently from the other said n indicators.
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Abstract
A method of presenting glucose data to a person with diabetes from a blood glucose meter is provided in which an effective meal average (EMA) value is presented, followed by two or more of the individual values that make up the EMA, to provide improved feedback data for clinical decisions by patients who need to alter their dose of insulin. The EMA can also comprise a measure of the variability of its constituent values. The EMA encompasses those values that occur at specified times such as 1 hour before and 1 hour after a specified meal time. The EMA is calculated over a limited number of days previous to the calculation (e.g., 3 days) and has a minimum number of values that must be obtained within the time and date ranges. An algorithm allows for exclusion of any given reading from the average (e.g., post-prandial or control solution readings). Patients can use 1 to 8 EMA on any given date range (e.g., preferably 4, that is, breakfast, lunch, supper and bedtime snack).
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26 Claims
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1. A method of annunciating a patient'"'"'s medical data levels using a medical data level monitoring device comprising the steps of:
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storing medical data levels with the corresponding dates and times of day the respective medical data levels were taken; calculating an average medical data level from at least a first medical data level and a second medical data level selected from the stored medical data levels; annunciating said average medical data level; receiving a first user input to annunciate said first medical data level; annunciating said first medical data level; receiving a second user input to annunciate said second medical data level; and annunciating said second medical data level; wherein the average medical data level calculation uses n of said stored medical data levels, where n is an integer greater than 2 and said n stored medical data levels are constituent values of said average medical data level that comprise said first medical data level and said second medical data level; and wherein, when said average medical data level and said constituent values are annunciated using a display screen, the display screen comprises a first area for displaying one of the average medical data level and said constituent values, and a second area configured to simultaneously display n indicators corresponding to respective ones of said constituent values with the n indicator corresponding to a currently displayed one of said constituent values being displayed differently from the other said n indicators. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An apparatus for patient condition monitoring comprising:
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a reader for measuring a selected medical data level for said patient; a memory device for storing a plurality of the medical data levels along with their respective dates and time of day they were taken; an annunciator; a user input device; and a processing device connected to said reader, said memory device, said annunciator and said user input device and programmed to calculate an average medical data level from at least a first medical data level and a second medical data level selected from the stored medical data levels in said memory device, to annunciate the average medical data level via said annunciator, to receive a first user input from said user input device to annunciate the first medical data level, to annunciate the first medical data level in response to said first user input, to receive a second user input from said user input device to annunciate the second medical data level, and to annunciate the second medical data level in response to said second user input; wherein said processing device is programmed to use n of the stored medical data levels to calculate the average medical data level, where n is an integer greater than 2 and the n stored medical data levels are constituent values of said average medical data level that comprise said first medical data level and said second medical data level; wherein, when said annunciator is a display screen and the average medical data level and the constituent values are annunciated using said display screen, said display screen comprises a first area for displaying one of the average medical data level and the constituent values, and a second area configured to simultaneously display n indicators corresponding to respective ones of the constituent values with the n indicator corresponding to a currently displayed one of said constituent values being displayed differently from the other said n indicators. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of displaying blood glucose levels using a blood glucose meter comprising the steps of:
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storing blood glucose levels with the corresponding dates and times of day the respective blood glucose levels were taken; calculating an average blood glucose level from at least a three of the stored blood glucose levels as the constituent values; displaying the average blood glucose level using a display device of said blood glucose meter; receiving a first user input to display a first one of the constituent values; displaying the first one of the constituent values in response to the first user input; receiving a second user input to display a second one of the constituent values; and displaying the second one of the constituent values in response to the second user input; wherein the display screen comprises a first area for displaying one of the average blood glucose level and the constituent values, and a second area configured to simultaneously display three indicators corresponding to respective ones of the three constituent values with the indicator corresponding to a currently displayed one of the three constituent values being displayed differently from the other ones of the three indicators. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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