HANDHELD DIABETES MANAGEMENT DEVICE FOR OBTAINING THREE DAY BLOOD GLUCOSE PROFILE

• US 20120095773A1
• 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: Galley, Paul J., Price, John F., Wilson, Richard W., McCool, Lisa
• Granted Patent: US 8,515,775 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A method is disclosed for managing a three day profile blood glucose (bG) measurements that are provided by a user using a handheld diabetes management device. The method may involve configuring a database carried by the device to store a plurality of bG test values input by a user for each day of a three day test period. The bG test values are required to be provided by the user in accordance with a predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows during each day of the three day test period. If two or more windows are open concurrently when a given bG test value is obtained, the system allows the user to select the appropriate time window that the given bG test value should be associated with. A processing subsystem of the device determines if at least a predetermined minimum plurality of the stored bG test values has been provided by the user during the predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows for each day of the three day test period and, if so, the processing subsystem accepts the bG test values provided by the user when compiling results for a three day bG profile.

Claims

1. A method for managing three day profile blood glucose (bG) measurements provided by a user on a handheld diabetes management device, the method comprising:

configuring a database of the device to store a plurality of bG test values input by a user for each day of a three day test period, wherein bG test values are required to be provided by the user in accordance with a predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows during each day of the three day test period;

using a processing subsystem of the device to receive bG test values provided by a bG analyzer and to store the bG test values in the database;

using the device to enable the user to select which one of the acceptance time windows are to be associated with one of the bG test values when the one bG test value is obtained by the user when more than one acceptance time window is open concurrently; and

using the processing subsystem to determine if at least a predetermined minimum plurality of the stored bG test values has been provided by the user during the predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows for each day of the three day test period and, if so, using the processing subsystem to accept the bG test values provided by the user when compiling results for a three day bG profile.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising using a display of the device to display the results of the three day bG profile.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the three day test period during which the bG test values are provided to the processing subsystem requires at least the predetermined minimum plurality of the bG test values to have been provided by the user during the predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows during both of first and second successive days that form the three day test period.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing subsystem is configured to abort a collection of the bG test values and restart the three day test period if at least the predetermined minimum plurality of bG test values is not provided during a first day of the three day test period.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing subsystem removes a collection of the bG test values, from a file of the database, that were obtained during the first and second days of the three day test period, if the predetermined minimum plurality of bG test values is provided during a first day of the three day test period but not during the second day of the three day test period.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined plurality of differing time acceptance windows comprises seven different acceptance time windows each having a predetermined duration.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the seven different acceptance time windows comprise:

a pre-breakfast meal acceptance time window with a user selected breakfast time input to the processing subsystem by the user;

a post-breakfast meal acceptance time window;

a pre-lunch meal acceptance time window;

with a user selected lunch time input to the processing subsystem by the user;

a post-lunch meal acceptance time window;

a pre-dinner meal acceptance time window with a user selected dinner time input to the processing subsystem by the user;

a post-dinner meal time acceptance window; and

a bedtime meal acceptance time window with a user selected bedtime input to the processing subsystem.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing subsystem is used to cause the device to generate one of a tactile and audible reminder, at each one of the predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows, to alert the user to conduct a bG test in accordance with a specific one of the acceptance time windows.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing subsystem only considers postprandial labeled bG test values that meet a user preset snack threshold level indicating that a particular bG test value was obtained subsequent to a meal and not subsequent to a snack.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the processing subsystem recognizes that at least two of the predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows overlap relative to a user set meal time; and

the processing subsystem generates a plurality of selection choices on a display of the device that allows the user to specify whether the given bG test value is a preprandial bG test value or a postprandial bG test value.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the display is implemented as a touchscreen display, and wherein the selection choices comprise choices that are presented on the touchscreen for selection by the user.

20. The system of claim 10, wherein the predetermined acceptance time windows are implemented by the processing subsystem as seven acceptance time windows throughout a twenty four hour period, and wherein six of the seven acceptance time windows are set in relation to specific meal times input to the device by the user, and a seventh time window is set in relation to a bed time input to the device by the user.

12. A non-transitory, computer readable medium adapted to run on a processing subsystem of a handheld diabetes management device for managing three day profile blood glucose (bG) measurements input by a user to the device, the computer readable medium comprising:

a database that stores a plurality of bG test values input to the device by a user for each day of a three day test period, wherein bG test values are required to be provided by the user in accordance with a predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows during each day of the three day test period; and

the computer readable medium adapted to determine if at least a predetermined minimum plurality of the stored bG test values has been accepted during the predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows for each day of the three day test period and, if so, using the accepted bG test values as test results for a three day bG profile; and

the computer readable medium adapted to determine if the first two days of the three day test period each have the minimum plurality of the stored bG test values obtained therefore and that the third day does not, and then enabling the test to continue on a successive fourth day following the third day in an attempt to successfully complete the three day test period.

13. The non-transitory, computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the test results are sent to a display of the device for display to the user.

14. The non-transitory, computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the non-transitory, computer readable medium is adapted to determine if the bG test values input to the device by the user have been provided during the predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows during both of first and second successive days that form the three day test period.

15. The non-transitory, computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows are implemented in accordance with seven different acceptance time windows over a twenty four hour period, with each one of said seven different acceptance time windows having a predetermined time duration.

16. The non-transitory, computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the non-transitory, computer readable medium uses the processing subsystem to analyze a marker for each of the bG test values that is provided by the user, and further allows only specific ones of those bG test values to be used for the three day profile that:

have been marked by the user as corresponding to a meal; and

that have been input by the user during ones of the predetermined plurality of differing acceptance time windows.

17. A system for managing three day profile blood glucose (bG) measurements provided by a user, the system comprising:

a handheld diabetes management device, the device including;

a database for storing bG values input to the device by a user for each day of a three day test period;

a processing subsystem in communication with the database, the processing subsystem configured;

to generate a plurality of acceptance time windows for a twenty four hour period;

to analyze the bG test values stored in the database during each twenty four hour period for each day of a three day test period;

to determine whether each of the stored bG test values corresponds to a meal;

to accept only ones of the bG test values input by the user that correspond to a meal, and that have been input during specific ones of the plurality of acceptance time windows over the three day time span;

to allow the user to continue performing the test on a fourth day if first and second days of the test result in a sufficient number of bG test values being accepted but the third day has an insufficient number of accepted bG test values, in an effort to successfully complete the test;

to use the accepted bG values in generating information relating to test results for a three day bG profile; and

the handheld diabetes management device further including a visual display for displaying the test results of the three day bG profile.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the processing subsystem is further configured to abort the three day test period, and to start a new three day test period, if:

at the end of the first day of the three day time test period at least four accepted bG test values have not obtained for the first day;

or at the end of the second day of the three day test period at least four accepted bG test values have not been obtained for the second day.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein if at least four accepted bG test values are obtained during each of the first and second days, and only three or fewer accepted ones of the bG test values are obtained during the third day, the processing subsystem clears the previously accepted bG test values obtained during the third day from a collection of the test results, and enables bG test values to be input to the device by the user during the fourth day immediately following the third day, and if at least four accepted bG test values are obtained during the fourth day, then using the accepted bG test values obtained during the first, second and fourth days to form the three day bG profile results.