Handheld Blood Glucose Monitoring Device with Messaging Capability
First Claim
1. A blood glucose monitoring system comprising:
- a handheld blood glucose monitoring device havinga glucose sensing subsystem configured to measure a blood glucose level in a blood sample, anda radio transceiver subsystem configured to receive blood glucose measurements from the glucose sensing subsystem and to transmit the blood glucose measurements over a wireless communications link;
a networked computer configured to receive the transmitted blood glucose measurements; and
a rules engine running on the networked computer to execute at least one script in response to a received blood glucose measurement and produce a message to be sent back to the handheld blood glucose monitoring device.
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Abstract
A patient monitoring network pertaining to blood glucose and other analyte measurements includes wireless blood glucose or other analyte measuring devices and a networked computer or server. Each monitoring device is associated with a patient and is configured to measure the glucose level or other analyte from a given blood sample via inserted test strips, transmit the measurements to the networked computer, and display received messages. The messages may relate to the current or past measurements, or may include an alert prompting the user of the monitoring device to order more supplies, such as test strips. The measurements received by the networked computer may be stored in a record of a database, which may be accessed by a remote computer. The remote computer may also access a script editor to edit certain scripts which produce certain messages sent to the monitoring device.
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41 Claims
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1. A blood glucose monitoring system comprising:
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a handheld blood glucose monitoring device having a glucose sensing subsystem configured to measure a blood glucose level in a blood sample, and a radio transceiver subsystem configured to receive blood glucose measurements from the glucose sensing subsystem and to transmit the blood glucose measurements over a wireless communications link; a networked computer configured to receive the transmitted blood glucose measurements; and a rules engine running on the networked computer to execute at least one script in response to a received blood glucose measurement and produce a message to be sent back to the handheld blood glucose monitoring device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. The system of 5, wherein the user interface comprises buttons along a side of the handheld blood glucose monitoring device.
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7. The system of 5, wherein the user interface and the display comprise a touch-sensitive screen.
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8. The system of 5, wherein the radio transceiver subsystem is further configured to transmit over a wireless communications network a response entered via the user interface.
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9. The system of 8, wherein the networked computer is configured to receive the response.
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10. A blood glucose monitoring system comprising a first computer configured to:
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communicate via a network; receive, via the network, blood glucose measurements from a plurality of remotely-located blood glucose monitoring devices; store each measurement from a particular device in a record, corresponding to the particular device, of a database; execute at least one script, in response to receiving the measurement from the particular device, to produce a message to be sent back to the particular device; and transmit, via the network, the message to the particular device. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. The system of 16, wherein the script editor is further configured to allow creation of a personalized message for transmission to the particular device via the first computer.
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19. A handheld blood glucose monitoring device comprising:
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a glucose sensing subsystem configured to measure a blood glucose level in a blood sample; a radio transceiver subsystem configured to receive blood glucose measurements from the glucose sensing subsystem, to transmit the blood glucose measurements over a wireless communications link, and to receive over the wireless communications link a message returned to the handheld device in response to the transmitted blood glucose measurement; and a display to display blood glucose measurements from the glucose sensing subsystem and to display the message received from the radio transceiver subsystem. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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22. The device of 21, wherein the user interface comprises a plurality of buttons on the handheld blood glucose monitoring device.
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23. The device of 21, wherein the user interface and the display comprise a touch-sensitive display.
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29. A method for monitoring blood glucose levels of a plurality of patients, comprising:
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receiving, at a computer via a wireless network, blood glucose measurements from a plurality of blood glucose monitoring devices, each device associated with a respective one of the plurality of patients; storing each measurement from each device in a corresponding record of a database, wherein each record corresponds to a respective device; executing, for each received measurement, at least one script associated with the respective record to produce a message to be sent back to the respective device; and transmitting the respective message to the respective device. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. An analyte monitoring system comprising:
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a handheld analyte monitoring device having an analyte sensing subsystem configured to measure an analyte from a patient, and a radio transceiver subsystem configured to receive analyte measurements from the analyte sensing subsystem and to transmit the analyte measurements over a wireless communications link; a networked computer configured to receive the transmitted analyte measurements; and a rules engine running on the networked computer to execute at least one script in response to a received analyte measurement and produce a message to be sent back to the handheld analyte monitoring device. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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