MEDICAL DEVICE HAVING A REMINDER FUNCTION
First Claim
1. A medical device having a reminder function, the medical device comprising:
- a reminder generator for issuing a reminder to a user to perform a predetermined action with the medical device; and
a controller for selecting the reminder from a plurality of available reminders and for controlling the reminder generator to issue the selected reminder in accordance with a reminding schedule;
wherein the controller is configured to maintain a measure of the effectiveness of each of said available reminders and to select the reminder from the plurality of available reminders based on said measures.
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Abstract
There is provided a medical device having a reminder function, the medical device comprising a reminder generator for issuing a reminder to a user to perform a predetermined action with the medical device; and a controller for selecting the reminder from a plurality of available reminders and for controlling the reminder generator to issue the selected reminder in accordance with a reminding schedule; wherein the controller is configured to maintain a measure of the effectiveness of each of said available reminders and to select the reminder from the plurality of available reminders based on said measures.
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16 Claims
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1. A medical device having a reminder function, the medical device comprising:
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a reminder generator for issuing a reminder to a user to perform a predetermined action with the medical device; and a controller for selecting the reminder from a plurality of available reminders and for controlling the reminder generator to issue the selected reminder in accordance with a reminding schedule; wherein the controller is configured to maintain a measure of the effectiveness of each of said available reminders and to select the reminder from the plurality of available reminders based on said measures. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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4. A medical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to select the reminder from the plurality of available reminders having the highest measure of effectiveness.
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5. A medical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to select the reminder from a subset of the plurality of available reminders, the reminders in the subset having the highest measures of effectiveness.
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6. A medical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to operate in a training mode in which the controller selects a reminder from the plurality of available reminders at random.
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7. A medical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to operate in a training mode in which the controller selects a reminder from the plurality of available reminders that has been used the least times.
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8. A medical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to select the reminder from the plurality of available reminders statistically using the measures of the effectiveness and a random contribution.
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9. A medical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to select the reminder from the plurality of available reminders by using probabilistic selection in which each reminder has an associated probability of selection that is defined by a ratio between the measure of the effectiveness of said reminder and the sum of the measures of effectiveness for each of said reminders in the plurality of available reminders.
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10. A medical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to receive feedback from the user on one or more of the reminders in the plurality of available reminders and to update the measure of the effectiveness for each of said one or more reminders based on said feedback.
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11. A medical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the reminders in the plurality of available reminders has one or more modalities selected from sounds, visual elements, vibrations and smells.
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12. A medical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the medical device is a medical monitoring device and further comprises at least one physiological characteristic sensor, wherein the reminder generator is for issuing a reminder to the user to take a measurement using the at least one physiological characteristic sensor.
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13. A medical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the medical device is a medicament dispensing device and further comprises a medicament dispenser, wherein the reminder generator is for issuing a reminder to the user to take a medicament from the medicament dispenser.
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14. A method of operating a medical device, the method comprising:
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determining that a reminder should be issued to a user of the medical device to remind the user to perform a predetermined action with the medical device; selecting a reminder from a plurality of available reminders, the selection of the reminder being based on measures of the effectiveness of each of said reminders in the plurality; and issuing the selected reminder to the user. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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Specification