DEVICE, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR SEARCHING, FILTERING AND DISPLAYING EVENT-ALIGNED INFORMATION SETS RELATED TO DIABETES

• US 20100317950A1
• Filed: 06/10/2009
• Published: 12/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Price, John F., Galley, Paul J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,579,815 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/365
• 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: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying diabetes related information sets aligned by the occurrence of a particular event are disclosed. After receiving a request for an event-aligned display of diabetes related information based on an event, a search for a plurality of tagged occurrences of the event and retrieval of an information set for each of the plurality of tagged occurrences is provided. Each information set may include diabetes related information chronologically related to the tagged occurrence. The retrieved information sets is displayed on a display, wherein the retrieved information sets are shown on the display aligned by their tagged occurrences such that all diabetes related information is positioned relative the event based on its chronological relationship with the event.

Claims

1. A method for displaying diabetes related information comprising:

receiving a request for an event-aligned display of diabetes related information based on an event;

searching for a plurality of tagged occurrences of the event;

retrieving an information set for each of the plurality of tagged occurrences, wherein each information set comprises diabetes related information chronologically related to the tagged occurrence; and

displaying the retrieved information sets on a display, wherein the retrieved information sets are shown on the display aligned by their tagged occurrences such that all diabetes related information are positioned relative the event based on their chronological relationship with the event.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein tagged occurrences are manually tagged.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein tagged occurrences comprise exercise, illness, stress, menstrual state, meal, ketosis, and/or therapeutic changes.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein tagged occurrences are automatically tagged based on the diabetes related information or external conditions.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the diabetes related information comprises glucose levels and events of hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia are automatically tagged when a glucose level drops below or rises above a threshold value.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein each information set may be selectively removed from the display.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein searching for a plurality of tagged occurrences comprises searching backwards in time from a most recent tagged occurrence.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the plurality of tagged occurrences comprises between four and seven tagged occurrences.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the diabetes related information comprises glucose levels.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the glucose levels are obtained via a continuous blood glucose meter.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein displaying the information sets is performed on a touch screen display providing a graphical user interface which also receives the request.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the display may be scrolled forward or backwards in time.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein each of the plurality of information sets may selectively be displayed through engaging the touch screen display.

14. A device for searching, filtering and displaying event-aligned information sets related to diabetes, comprising:

a display;

an input terminal for making a request for an event-aligned display of diabetes related information based on an event;

memory for storing the diabetes related information and instructions;

a processor in communication with the memory and operable to execute the instructions, the instructions causing the processor to search for a plurality of tagged occurrences of the event and retrieve an information set for each of the tagged occurrences based on the request, the information sets comprising diabetes related information chronologically related to the tagged occurrences, and to display on the display such retrieved information sets wherein the retrieved information sets are aligned by their tagged occurrences such that all diabetes related information is positioned relative the event based on its chronological relationship with the event.

15. The device of claim 14 wherein the display comprises a touch screen display.

16. The device of claim 14 further comprising communications hardware enabling communications with a server having a diary database, wherein the device stores the diabetes related information contained in the memory to the diary database of the server through said communications.

17. The device of claim 14 wherein the device is a blood glucose meter.

18. A method for displaying diabetes related information comprising:

determining an event and a time frame for analysis; and

requesting an event-aligned display of diabetes related information based on the event and the time frame via an input device of a device having a display, a processor and memory, wherein the event is entered via the input device, the processor searches the memory for a plurality of tagged occurrences of the event within the time frame, retrieves an information set for each of the plurality of tagged occurrences, each information set comprises diabetes related information chronologically related to the tagged occurrence, and displays the retrieved information sets on the display, the information sets being aligned by their tagged occurrences such that all diabetes related information is positioned relative the event based on its chronological relationship with the event.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the event is entered through selecting the event from a dropdown display listing a plurality of events.

20. The method of claim 18 further comprising determining a number of tagged occurrences for analysis.

21. The method of claim 18 further comprising selectively adding or removing individual information sets.

22. The method of claim 18 further comprising scrolling the display forwards or backwards in time.

23. A graphical user interface for displaying event-aligned information sets on a device with a display, comprising:

a graph area;

a date range list box;

wherein;

in response to processing of the device on a time frame listed in the date range list box and a request for an event-aligned display of diabetes related information based on an event, information sets are displayed in the graph area aligned by tagged occurrences of the event within the time frame such that all diabetes related information are positioned relative the event based on their chronological relationship with the event.

24. The graphical user interface of claim 23 wherein the graph area comprises an independent axis and a dependant axis indicating chronological time lapse and blood glucose level, respectively, as the information sets.

25. The graphical user interface of claim 24 wherein the independent axis of the graph area further comprises an event indicator that represents when the event occurred and the amount of time lapsed either before or after the event.

26. The graphical user interface of claim 24 wherein the dependent axis further comprises a label indicating the information sets shown in the graph area.

27. The graphical user interface of claim 26 wherein the label is one of blood glucose (bG).

28. The graphical user interface of claim 26 wherein four information sets based on the event can be shown in the graph area.

29. The graphical user interface of claim 23 wherein the information sets shown in the graph area comprise information within ±

3 hours of the event and are referenced by a legend in the graph area.

30. The graphical user interface of claim 23 wherein each of the information sets may be selectively removed from the graph area.

31. The graphical user interface of claim 23 further comprises a forward arrow and a backwards arrow which may be selected to cycle through the information sets displayed in the graph area.