INDIVIDUALIZATION OF MEDICAL ADJUVANTS

• US 20110173024A1
• Filed: 09/08/2009
• Published: 07/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Konya, Ahmet, Kuhr, Hans-Juergen
• Application Number:
  US13/063,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20110173024A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150022 for capillary blood or interstitial fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150358 Strips for collecting blood, e.g. absorbent optical reagent test strips G01N21/8483; chemical reagent test strips G01N33/4875, G01N33/52
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150412 Pointed piercing elements, e.g. needles, lancets for piercing the skin blade-like piercing elements A61B5/150442
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150503 Single-ended needles hollow piercing element tip design A61B5/150396, needle sets for catheters A61M25/06, needles for bringing media into the body A61M5/32
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150786 Optical identification systems, e.g. bar codes, colour codes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15113 Manually triggered, i.e. the triggering requires a deliberate action by the user such as pressing a drive button
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15115 Driving means for propelling the piercing element to pierce the skin, e.g. comprising mechanisms based on shape memory alloys, magnetism, solenoids, piezoelectric effect, biased elements, resilient elements, vacuum or compressed fluids
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15169 Characterized by a rolled strip
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15171 Characterized by propelling the piercing element perpendicular to the direction of movement of the strip
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15178 Stocking means comprising separate compartments or units for new and for used piercing elements separate compartments for used piercing elements in piercing devices A61B5/15184
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15182 Means for keeping track or checking of the total number of piercing elements already used or the number of piercing elements still remaining in the stocking, e.g. by check window, counter, display
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/157 Devices characterised by integrated means for measuring characteristics of blood
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A method for upgrading a medical device for the treatment of diabetes in the home-monitoring field includes the steps of providing consumables in a housing with a type-specific identification code for use in a medical device, storing the identification code in combination with a user identification and determining a user status, offering a selection according to the user status of at least one configuration of a supplemental module for the medical device, and generating a delivery order for a supplemental module based on the selection made by the user.

Claims

1. Medical device for the analysis or treatment of a diabetic comprising:

a receiving site for one or more consumables,

at least one consumable which can be inserted into the receiving site where the consumable has an identification code,

a read-out unit which is designed to read out the identification code on the consumable,

characterized in that it additionally comprises a data storage and data processing unit which is designed to add different identification codes and/or combine an identification code with a user code.

2. Medical device according to the previous claim, characterized in that the device comprises a device to signal a sufficient score to upgrade the system.

5. Method according to one of the previous claims, characterized in that the medical device is a lancing device, an analyzer or an insulin-injection module.

6. Method according to one of the previous claims, characterized in that the supplemental module configuration contains design components and/or functional components.

7. Method according to one of the previous claims, characterized in that the supplemental module is a surrounding housing and at least partially surrounds the medical device in a removable manner.

8. Method according to one of the previous claims, characterized in that the user identification contains information about the disease status of the user.

9. Method according to one of the previous claims, characterized in that the selection of the supplemental module is offered depending on the user status.

10. Method according to claim 6, characterized in that the functional components belong to the group

additional trigger button

automatic display of unused lancets

additional consumables such as lancing elements, test elements etc.

variation of the size of the supplemental module for the customized handling of the medical device

automatic display of unused consumables

display to indicate various results and other data.

3. Method for upgrading a medical device for the treatment of diabetes in the home-monitoring field comprising the steps:

providing consumables in a housing with a type-specific identification code for use in a medical device,

storing the identification code in combination with a user identification and determining a user status,

offering a selection according to the user status of at least one configuration of a supplemental module for the medical device

generating a delivery order for a supplemental module based on the selection made by the user.

4. Method according to claim 3, characterized in that the identification code contains information about the amount of the consumables.

11. Method for individualizing a hand-held diabetes management system comprising the steps:

providing a selection of design or functional properties of a surrounding housing for an independently functional medical device where the surrounding housing at least partially surrounds the medical device,

registering the selection made by the customer of at least one property of the surrounding housing,

characterized in that the design or functional properties of the surrounding housing can be individually put together in the selection of the surrounding housing and a corresponding order for the delivery of the selected surrounding housing is generated.

12. Method according to claim 11, characterized in that the surrounding housing functionally interacts with the device when it is used with the medical device.

14. System for use in a method according to claim 3 or 11, characterized in that the supplemental module can be individually selected from different combinations of features depending on the amount of consumables in the medical device.

16. Computer or network with a programme for selecting configurations of supplemental modules for medical devices for carrying out the method according to claim 3 or 11.

17. Data base for providing data for selecting configurations of supplemental modules for medical devices according to claim 3 or 11.

13. Medical home-monitoring system for the analysis or treatment of a diabetic comprising:

a medical device which can interact with a magazine,

a magazine containing consumables and which can be inserted into the medical device,

characterized in that the magazine can be provided with a different amount of consumables in the unused state.

15. System according to claim 13, characterized in that the magazine has the same housing size for different numbers of consumables.