DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING BLOOD GLUCOSE CONTROL

• US 20100160757A1
• Filed: 02/29/2008
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: WEINERT, STEFAN, Wagner, Robin, Laan, Remmert
• Granted Patent: US 8,317,699 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/365
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 90/00 Systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not involving significant data processing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A blood glucose and lifestyle tracking apparatus is disclosed. The blood glucose and lifestyle tracking apparatus provides a method for recording both blood glucose values for fasting, postprandial, and preprandial time periods and lifestyle factors.

Claims

1. An apparatus for tracking blood glucose values and lifestyle factors, the apparatus including:

a substrate having a front side including a plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values and a second side including a portion having a plurality of instructions for using the plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values, the substrate being foldable such that the portion having the plurality of instructions on the second side overlap a portion of the front side.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the plurality of instructions overlap a portion of the plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the front side further includes a plurality of regions for tracking a plurality of lifestyle factors.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the plurality of lifestyle factors includes meal size.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the meal size is indicated with a subjective ranking.

6. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the plurality of lifestyle factors includes an energy level.

7. An apparatus for tracking blood glucose values and lifestyle factors, the apparatus including:

a substrate having a front side including a plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values, the plurality of regions including a first region for recording an actual blood glucose value and a second region for placing a graphical marker indicating a selection of a first range of a plurality of ranges of blood glucose values, the plurality of ranges including at least one range below a target range, at least one target range, and at least one range above a target range.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the substrate further includes a second side including a portion having a plurality of instructions for using the plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values, the substrate being foldable such that the portion having the plurality of instructions on the second side overlap a portion of the front side.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the plurality of instructions overlap a portion of the plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the front side further includes a plurality of regions for tracking a plurality of lifestyle factors.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the plurality of lifestyle factors includes meal size and a region for tracking the meal size is positioned above the first region.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the meal size is indicated with a subjective ranking.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the plurality of lifestyle factors includes an energy level and a region for tracking the energy level is positioned above the first region.

14. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the target range is color-coded.

15. A method of assessing blood glucose levels, the method including the steps of:

receiving a blood glucose form over a network, the blood glucose form including a plurality of indicia related to a plurality of blood glucose readings;

storing a plurality of database records based on the plurality of indicia related to the plurality of blood glucose readings; and

providing at least one report based on the plurality of database records, the at least one report graphically representing at least a portion of the plurality of indicia related to the plurality of blood glucose readings.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of indicia include manually entered representations of blood glucose values and the method further includes the step of converting the manually entered representations of blood glucose values to electronically represented numerical values.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the manually entered representations of blood glucose values are numbers.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the step of providing at least one report based on the plurality of database records includes the step of sending the at least one report over the network.

19. A method of assessing blood glucose levels, the method including the steps of:

providing a patient with a prescription for test strips for a blood glucose meter and a blood glucose form;

receiving the blood glucose form from the patient, the blood glucose form including a plurality of indicia related to a plurality of blood glucose readings of the blood glucose meter; and

receiving at least one report based on the plurality of indicia related to the plurality of blood glucose readings.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the at least one report is generated by a healthcare management software system.

21. The method of claim 19, further including the steps of:

converting the plurality of indicia related to the plurality of blood glucose readings of the blood glucose meter to an electronic form;

transmitting the electronic form to a remote computing device over a network, the remote computing device generating the at least one report.

22. A system for tracking physiological information with a blood glucose meter, the system including:

a plurality of test strips for use with the blood glucose meter; and

a blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus for recording a plurality of blood glucose values determined by the blood glucose meter and corresponding lifestyle factors.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus is configured to receive multiple blood glucose values for consecutive days and to provide a graphical representation of a glycemic control of the plurality of blood glucose values.

24. The system of claim 22, wherein the blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus includes a first region for recording blood glucose values, a second region for recording indications of a plurality of lifestyle factors, and a third region for graphing blood glucose values over time.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the second region and the third region are visible together.

26. The system of claim 24, wherein the third region includes a first visual indicator indicating a target range for post-prandial blood glucose values and a second visual indicator indicating a target range for pre-prandial blood glucose values.

27. The system of claim 22, wherein the plurality of test strips and the blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus are provided as a kit.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein the kit further includes educational materials on meal planning.

29. The system of claim 22, wherein the corresponding lifestyle factors include a subjective indication of meal size.

30. The system of claim 22, wherein the corresponding lifestyle factors include an indication of energy level.

31. A method of assessing blood glucose levels, the method including the steps of:

providing a patient with a blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus, the blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus including a first region for recording blood glucose values for at least a first fasting time period, a first preprandial time period, and a first postprandial time period for multiple consecutive days;

a second region for graphically representing the blood glucose values recorded in the first region, the second region being placed so that a first graphical marker in the second region corresponding to a first blood glucose value in the first region are aligned; and

a third region for recording at least one lifestyle factor for each blood glucose value, the third region being positioned above the first region; and

receiving the blood glucose form from the patient, the blood glucose form including a plurality of manually recorded blood glucose values, a manually drawn graphical representation of the plurality of manually recorded blood glucose values; and

a plurality of manually recorded indicia for the at least one lifestyle factor for each manually recorded blood glucose value.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the second region includes a plurality of boxes each corresponding to a range of blood glucose values, the first graphical marker being placed in a first box of the plurality of boxes, the range of blood glucose values of the first box including the first blood glucose value.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein the second region is color-coded to indicate whether the first graphical marker corresponds to a target range.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein a first target range is a postprandial target range and a second target range is a preprandial target range.

35. The method of 31, wherein the first region includes a first plurality of boxes for recording the blood glucose values, the first plurality of boxes positioned in a first row;

the second region includes a plurality of columns, each column including a second plurality of boxes; and

the third region includes a third plurality of boxes for recording the at least one lifestyle factor, the third plurality of boxes positioned in a second row.