TIME BLOCK MANIPULATION FOR INSULIN INFUSION DELIVERY

• US 20120095310A1
• Filed: 10/15/2010
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Long, James R., Bush, Jason M., Organ, Leon R. III, Westerfield, Kristin M., Jensen, Hans P., Markisohn, D. Bradley, Levy, William
• Granted Patent: US 8,761,940 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/365
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

The present teachings provide a system for modifying insulin therapy support parameters such as warning limit data and time block data on a hand-held diabetes management device. The system can include a graphical user interface module that creates a graphical user interface having a plurality of bar structures positionable on or between a first line that indicates an upper limit and a second line that illustrates a lower limit. Each of the bar structures can have a first side that indicates a start time of a time window opposite a second side that indicates an end time of the time window and a third side that indicates a lower target value for a blood glucose level opposite a fourth side that indicates an upper target value for the blood glucose level. The bar structures, the first line and the second line can be adjustable by a user input.

Claims

1. A system for modifying insulin therapy support parameters such as a start time of day data value, an end time of day data value, a lower blood glucose target data value, an upper blood glucose target data value, a high blood glucose warning data value and a low blood glucose warning data value on a hand-held diabetes management device comprising:

a graphical user interface module that creates a graphical user interface having a plurality of bar structures positionable on or between a first line that graphically indicates an upper boundary limit and a second line that graphically indicates a lower boundary limit, each of the plurality of bar structures having a first side that graphically indicates a start time of a time window opposite a second side that graphically indicates an end time of the time window and a third side that graphically indicates a start value for a range of values opposite a fourth side that graphically indicates an end value for the range of values;

the first side, the second side, the third side and the fourth side of each of the plurality of bar structures, the first line and the second line adjustable by a user input;

the plurality of bar structures governed by a set of constraints that confine each of the plurality of bar structures to an area defined by the first line and the second line and to a unique time window;

a data store for storing at least the start time of day data value, the end time of day data value, the lower blood glucose target data value, the upper blood glucose target data value, the high blood glucose warning data value and the low blood glucose warning data value;

a data mapping module that maps for each of the plurality of bar structures on the graphical user interface the start time of day data value to a location of the first side, the end time of day data value to a location of the second side, the lower blood glucose target data value to a location of the third side and the upper blood glucose target data value to a location of the fourth side and stores the start time of day data value, end time of day data value, lower blood glucose target data value and upper blood glucose target data value in the data store; and

wherein the data mapping module maps the high blood glucose warning data value to a location of the first line and maps the low blood glucose warning data value to a location of the second line and stores the high blood glucose warning data value and the low blood glucose warning data value in the data store.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the set of constraints confines the second line to an area below the first line.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises a graphical illustration of a bar chart, which includes a time of day in hours on an x-axis and a blood glucose measurement on a y-axis.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the plurality of bar structures are graphically illustrated on the bar chart.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the third side of at least one of the plurality of bar structures is located above the x-axis so as to not be in contact with the x-axis.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the system further comprises the hand-held diabetes management device, and the data mapping module outputs the start time of day data value, the end time of day data value, the lower blood glucose target data value, the upper blood glucose target data value, the high blood glucose warning data value and the low blood glucose warning data value to the hand-held diabetes management device.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface module, data store and data mapping module are implemented on a computer readable medium on a computing device, and the hand-held diabetes management device is in communication with the computing device through a wireless connection, a wired connection or combinations thereof.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a user input device selected from the group comprising:

touchpad, touch pen, touch screen, keyboard, mouse, joystick, trackball, wireless mouse, pointing device and combinations thereof.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises at least one input box for receipt of data relating to a carb ratio, insulin sensitivity and combinations thereof.

10. A system for modifying insulin therapy support parameters such as a start time of day data value, an end time of day data value, a lower blood glucose target data value, an upper blood glucose target data value, a high blood glucose warning data value and a low blood glucose warning data value on a hand-held diabetes management device comprising:

a graphical user interface module that creates a graphical user interface illustrating a bar chart having a plurality of bar structures, an x-axis graphically illustrating a time of day and a y-axis graphically illustrating a blood glucose level, the plurality of bar structures positionable on the bar chart, each of the plurality of bar structures having a first side that graphically indicates a start time of day opposite a second side that graphically indicates an end time of day and a third side that graphically indicates a lower target value for a blood glucose level opposite a fourth side that graphically indicates an upper target value for the blood glucose level;

the first side, the second side, the third side and the fourth side of each of the plurality of bar structures adjustable by a user input;

the third side of at least one of the plurality of bar structures spaced apart from the x-axis;

a data store for storing at least the start time of day data value, the end time of day data value, the lower blood glucose target data value and the upper blood glucose target data value;

a data mapping module that maps for each of the plurality of bar structures on the graphical user interface the start time of day data value to a location of the first side, the end time of day data value to a location of the second side, the lower blood glucose target data value to a location of the third side and the upper blood glucose target data value to a location of the fourth side and stores the start time of day data value, end time of day data value, lower blood glucose target data value and upper blood glucose target data value in the data store; and

wherein the data mapping module outputs the start time of day data value, end time of day data value, lower blood glucose target data value and upper blood glucose target data value to the hand-held diabetes management device.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises a first line that graphically illustrates an upper boundary limit and a second line that graphically illustrates a lower boundary limit, the first line and second line each being graphically illustrated on the bar chart as horizontal lines.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the first line and the second line are adjustable by a user input.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the data store further stores a high blood glucose warning data value and a low blood glucose warning data value, and the data mapping module maps the high blood glucose warning data value to a location of the first line and maps the low blood glucose warning data value to a location of the second line.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the plurality of bar structures are governed by a set of constraints that confine each of the plurality of bar structures to an area defined by the first line and the second line.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the second line is positioned on the bar chart above the x-axis, such that the second line graphically represents a blood glucose level value greater than zero.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the first side and the second side of each of the plurality of bar structures cooperate to form a time window, and the set of constraints further confines the time window defined by the first side and the second side of each of the plurality of bar structures to a unique time window.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the graphical user interface module, data store and data mapping module are implemented on a computer readable medium on a computing device, and the hand-held diabetes management device is in communication with the computing device through a wireless connection, a wired connection or combinations thereof.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises at least one input box for receipt of data relating to a carb ratio, insulin sensitivity and combinations thereof.

19. The system of claim 10, wherein the number of the plurality of bar structures displayed on the graphical user interface is adjustable by user input.