DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING BLOOD GLUCOSE CONTROL

• US 20130110549A1
• Filed: 10/23/2012
• Published: 05/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Laan, Remmert, Weinert, Stefan, Wagner, Robin
• Granted Patent: US 8,834,367 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 90/00 Systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not involving significant data processing
• 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: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A blood glucose and lifestyle tracking apparatus is disclosed. The blood glucose and lifestyle tracking apparatus provides a method for recording both blood glucose values for fasting, postprandial, and preprandial time periods and lifestyle factors.

Claims

1. A method of assessing blood glucose levels, comprising providing a patient with a blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus, the blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus comprises a substrate having a front side including a plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values and a second side including a portion having a plurality of instructions for using the plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values, the substrate being foldable such that the portion having the plurality of instructions on the second side overlap a portion of the front side.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving the blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus from the patient.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the providing the patient with blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus includes a prescription for test strips for a blood glucose meter.

4. A method of assessing blood glucose levels, comprising providing a patient with a blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus, the blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus comprises a substrate having a front side including a plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values, the plurality of regions including a first region for manually recording an actual blood glucose value and a second region for placing a graphical marker indicating a selection in a first range of a plurality of ranges of blood glucose values.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising receiving the blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus from the patient.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the providing the patient with blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus includes a prescription for test strips for a blood glucose meter.

7. A method of assessing blood glucose levels, comprising:

providing to a computing device data from a completed blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus, wherein the completed blood glucose and lifestyles tracking apparatus comprises a substrate having a front side including a plurality of regions for manually recording blood glucose values and a second side including a portion having a plurality of instructions for using the plurality of regions for recording blood glucose values, the plurality of regions for recording blood glucose values including recorded blood glucose values, and the substrate being foldable such that the portion having the plurality of instructions on the second side overlap a portion of the front side.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising storing via the computing device a plurality of database records based on at least a portion of the recorded blood glucose values.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising providing at least one report based on the plurality of database records, the at least one report graphically representing at least a portion of the recorded blood glucose values.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising the computing device converting the data to electronically represented numerical values in an electronic representation of the completed blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising extract via data conversion software a plurality of database records from the electronic representation.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein providing to the computing device the data from the completed blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus includes from one of a network, a scanner, and a facsimile machine.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein providing at least one report includes sending the at least one report over a network from the computing device to a remote computing device.

14. The method of claim 7, further comprising the computing device converting the recorded blood glucose values to electronically represented numerical values in an electronic representation of the completed blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus, and transmitting the electronic representation over a network to a remote computing device.

15. The method of claim 7, further comprising the computing device converting the recorded blood glucose values to electronically represented numerical values in an electronic representation of the completed blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus, and transmitting the electronic representation over a network to a remote computing device, the remote computing device generating the at least one report.

16. A method of assessing blood glucose levels, the method including:

providing a patient with a blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus, the blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus including;

a first region for recording blood glucose values for at least a first fasting time period, a first preprandial time period, and a first postprandial time period for multiple consecutive days;

a second region for graphically representing the blood glucose values recorded in the first region, the second region being placed so that a first graphical marker in the second region corresponding to a first blood glucose value in the first region are aligned, the first graphical marker indicating a selection of a first range of a plurality of ranges of blood glucose values, the plurality of ranges including at least one range below a target range, at least one target range, and at least one range above a target range; and

a third region for recording at least one lifestyle factor for each blood glucose value, the third region being positioned above the first region; and

receiving the blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus from the patient, the blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus including a plurality of manually recorded blood glucose values, a manually drawn graphical representation of the plurality of manually recorded blood glucose values; and

a plurality of manually recorded indicia for the at least one lifestyle factor for each manually recorded blood glucose value.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the second region includes a plurality of boxes each corresponding to the plurality of ranges of blood glucose values, the first graphical marker being placed in a first box of the plurality of boxes, the range of blood glucose values of the first box including the first blood glucose value.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the second region is color-coded to indicate whether the first graphical marker corresponds to the at least one target range.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the at least one target range includes a postprandial target range and a preprandial target range.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the first region includes a first plurality of boxes for recording the blood glucose values, the first plurality of boxes positioned in a first row;

the second region includes a plurality of columns, each column including a second plurality of boxes; and

the third region includes a third plurality of boxes for recording the at least one lifestyle factor, the third plurality of boxes positioned in a second row.

21. A method operating a computing device to assess blood glucose levels, the method including:

receiving by the computing device from at least one of a network, a scanner, and a facsimile machine data from a completed blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus, wherein the completed blood glucose and lifestyles tracking apparatus comprises a substrate having a front side including a plurality of regions for manually recording blood glucose values and a second side including a portion having a plurality of instructions for using the plurality of regions for recording blood glucose values, the plurality of regions for recording blood glucose values including recorded blood glucose values, and the substrate being foldable such that the portion having the plurality of instructions on the second side overlap a portion of the front side;

converting via the computing device the recorded blood glucose values to electronically represented numerical values in an electronic representation of the completed blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus; and

providing via the computing device at least one report based on the plurality of database records, the at least one report graphically representing at least a portion of the recorded blood glucose values.

22. A system which assesses blood glucose levels comprising:

a memory having a patient database;

an input device configured to both receive a completed blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus and provide an electronic representation of data from the completed blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus, wherein the completed blood glucose and lifestyles tracking apparatus comprises a substrate having a front side including a plurality of regions for manually recording blood glucose values and a second side including a portion having a plurality of instructions for using the plurality of regions for recording blood glucose values, the plurality of regions for recording blood glucose values including recorded blood glucose values, and the substrate being foldable such that the portion having the plurality of instructions on the second side overlap a portion of the front side; and

a computing device configured to input the electronic representation of the data from the completed blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus in the patient database.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the input device is one of a copier, a scanner, and a facsimile machine.

24. The system of claim 22, wherein the computing device is further configured to generate at least one report based on the data from the completed blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the computing device is configured to generate the at least one report via health management software.

26. The system of claim 24, wherein the computing device is further configured to transmit the at least one report over a network to a remote computing device.

27. The system of claim 22, wherein the computing device is further configured to provide the at least one report to an output device.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein the output device is one of a display, a printer, a facsimile machine and an electronic file in a memory.

29. The system of claim 22, wherein the patient database includes physiological information related to one or more patients, time information related to the physiological information, and lifestyle factors information related to at least one of the time information and the physiological information.

30. The system of claim 27, wherein the electronic file is provided in a portable document format or formatted for display in an internet browser.

31. A system which assesses blood glucose levels of a patient comprising:

a blood glucose and lifestyles tracking apparatus comprises a substrate having a front side including a plurality of regions for manually recording blood glucose values and a second side including a portion having a plurality of instructions for using the plurality of regions for recording blood glucose values, and the substrate being foldable such that the portion having the plurality of instructions on the second side overlap a portion of the front side;

a network;

a patient database; and

a healthcare management software system configured to both receive via the network an electronic representation of the blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus completed by the patient, and store data from the electronic representation of the completed blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus in the patient database, wherein the plurality of regions for recording blood glucose values of the completed blood glucose and lifestyles tracking apparatus includes recorded blood glucose values.

32. The system of claim 31, wherein the plurality of regions on the first side of the blood glucose and lifestyles tracking apparatus further includes a second region for placing a graphical marker indicating a selection in a first range of a plurality of ranges of blood glucose values.

33. The system of claim 31, wherein the healthcare management software system is further configured to generate at least one report derived from the electronic representation of the completed blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus.

34. The system of claim 31, wherein the network is selected from the internet, a phone network, a cellular network, a local area network, and a wide area network.

35. The system of claim 33, wherein the healthcare management software system is further configured to transfer the at least one report to an output device.

36. The system of claim 33, wherein the healthcare management software system is further configured to transfer the at least one report over the network to an output device.

37. The system of claim 33, wherein the at least one report includes historical data or physiological information related to one or more patients provided in the patient database.

38. The system of claim 33, wherein the at least one report is one of a mean glucose value, a percentage of blood glucose values in and out of a range, and trend analysis.