ANALYTE TESTING METHOD AND SYSTEM

• US 20100041084A1
• Filed: 08/12/2009
• Published: 02/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cilag Gmbh International (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: LifeScan Scotland Limited (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Strachan, Alexander, Sturrock, David Angus, Coventry, Lynne, STEPHENS, Chris, Welsh, Raymond John, Orr, Allan, Chiba, Mel
• Granted Patent: US 8,958,991 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 435/14
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/48785 Electrical and electronic details of measuring devices for physical analysis of liquid biological material not specific to a particular test method, e.g. user interface or power supply

Abstract

Described and illustrated herein is an exemplary method of operating an analyte measurement device having a display, user interface, processor, memory, and user interface buttons. Such method can be achieved by measuring an analyte with the analyte measurement device, displaying a value representative of the analyte, querying a user to select a predetermined flag to associate the predetermined flag with the value, and pressing only one of the user interface buttons once to store the predetermined flag with the value in the memory of the analyte measurement device. In one embodiment, the testing device is a glucose meter and the analyte being tested is glucose.

Claims

1. A method of operating an analyte measurement device having a display, user interface, processor, memory and user interface buttons, the method comprising:

measuring an analyte with the analyte measurement device;

displaying a value representative of the analyte;

presenting one of a plurality of predetermined flags;

querying a user to select the predetermined flag to associate the flag with the value; and

pressing only one of the user interface buttons once to store the predetermined flag with the value of the analyte in the memory of the device.

2. The method of claim 1, in which the user interface buttons comprise an up button, a down button and an OK button.

3. The method of claim 1, in which the plurality of predetermined flags comprises a before meal flag, an after meal flag, a fasting flag, or a blank flag.

4. The method of claim 1, in which the querying comprises pressing a user interface button to select another of the plurality of predetermined flags.

5. The method of claim 1, in which the querying comprises always querying a user whenever a measuring step has been completed.

6. The method of claim 1, in which the querying comprises querying a user whenever a measuring step indicates that an analyte value is outside a predetermined range.

7. The method of claim 1, in which the pressing comprises storing in memory the date and time at the completion of the measuring step with the selected flag.

8. The method of claim 1, in which the analyte measurement device comprises a glucose meter.

9. The method of claim 1, in which the measuring comprises:

inserting a test strip into a strip port provided by the measurement device; and

depositing a blood sample on a testing portion of the test strip without entering a calibration parameter for the test strip.

10. The method of claim 1, in which the measuring comprises

inserting a test strip into a strip port provided by the measurement device;

inputting a calibration parameter for the test strip via the user interface buttons of the device; and

,

depositing a blood sample on a testing portion of the test strip.

11. The method of claim 1, in which the inserting comprises turning on the measurement device when the strip is fully inserted into the strip port.

12. The method of claim 1, in which the plurality of predetermined flags comprise a comment title, a plurality of comments, comment page number, no comment, not enough food, too much food, mild exercise, strenuous exercise, medication, stress, illness, hypoglycemic state, menses, vacation, and combinations thereof.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting a plurality of menus to be displayed.

14. The method of claim 13, in which one of the plurality of menus comprises a prompt for last result, all results, averages, and settings.

15. The method of claim 14, in which another of the plurality of menus comprises a prompt for all results average, meal averages, and fasting averages.

16. The method of claim 1, in which the displaying comprises exhibiting a message of a value less than a predetermined value.

17. The method of claim 1, in which the displaying comprises exhibiting a message of a value higher than a predetermined value.

18. The method of one of claim 16 or claim 17, in which the pressing comprises storing the predetermined flag with the message.

19. A glucose measurement device comprising:

a glucose measurement unit configured to provide signals indicative of glucose amount in a fluid sample;

a display; and

a processor coupled to the display, glucose measurement unit, memory and user interface buttons so that, upon receipt of signals representing a glucose amount in a fluid sample from the measurement unit, the display exhibits one of a plurality of predetermined flags and the user interface buttons are operable to associate the one predetermined flag with the glucose amount in the memory with only one of the user interface buttons.

20. The glucose measurement device of claim 19, in which the plurality of predetermined flags comprises a before meal flag, an after meal flag, a fasting flag, or a blank flag.