REMINDER MANAGEMENT FOR MANUAL ENTRY DIABETES APPLICATION

• US 20130169436A1
• Filed: 05/02/2012
• Published: 07/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Reinke, Robert E.
• Granted Patent: US 9,259,190 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/540
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7275 Determining trends in physiological measurement data; Predicting development of a medical condition based on physiological measurements, e.g. determining a risk factor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1093 Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

A method is provided for managing manual entries of blood glucose measures in relation to a structured collection procedure administered by a portable computing device. The method includes: receiving an expected time for an event associated with a structured collection procedure, defining an acceptance window for a given collection action associated with the structured collection procedure and creating a reminder for the given collection action in a persistent data store, where the reminder specifies a time at which to initiate a reminder. Upon receiving a data entry of a blood glucose measure, the reminder event is purged from the data store when the data entry is received prior to the time at which to initiate the reminder. Conversely, a reminder notification is presented to the user when the data entry has not been received in advance of the time at which to initiate the reminder.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for managing manual entries of blood glucose measures for a patient in relation to a structured collection procedure administered by a portable computing device, comprising:

receiving, by the computing device, an expected time for an event associated with a structured collection procedure, where the structured collection procedure specifies one or more collection actions for obtaining blood glucose measures from a patient;

defining, by the computing device, an acceptance window for a given collection action associated with the structured collection procedure, where the acceptance window is calculated from the expected time for the event and specifies a range of times for the given collection action;

creating, by the computing device, a reminder for the given collection action in a persistent data store, where the reminder specifies a time at which to initiate a reminder;

receiving, by the computing device, a data entry from the user of the computing device, where the data entry includes a blood glucose measure for the patient; and

purging, by the computing device, the reminder from the data store when the data entry is received from the user prior to the time at which to initiate the reminder.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprises displaying, by the computing device, a reminder notification when current time corresponds to the time at which to initiate the reminder and the data entry has not been received from the user.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprises displaying, on a display of the computing device, a data entry interface upon receipt of an acceptance input from a user in response to the reminder notification, where the data entry interface includes a first input for a blood glucose measure and a second input for the collection action associated with the blood glucose measure, such that value for the second input is defaulted to the given collection action from the reminder notification.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of creating a reminder further comprises setting the time at which to initiate the reminder to a fixed period of time preceding the given collection action when at least a portion of the acceptance window for the given collection action precedes the expected time for the event.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of creating a reminder further comprises setting the time at which to initiate the reminder to coincide with a beginning of the acceptance window for the given collection action when an entirety of the acceptance window for the given collection action is subsequent to the expected time for the event.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of creating a reminder further comprises receiving a user input that specifies the time at which to initiate the reminder and constraining the user input to be before the expected time of the event when at least a portion of the acceptance window for the given collection action precedes the expected time for the event.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of creating a reminder further comprises receiving a user input that specifies the time at which to initiate the reminder and constraining the user input to be within acceptance window when an entirety of the acceptance window for the given collection action is subsequent to the expected time for the event.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprises

evaluating the data entry in relation to the structured collection procedure using a membership rule set, where the membership rule set defines rules for associating data entries with structured collection procedures;

and

associating the data entry with the structured collection procedure in accordance with a rule from the member rule set.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprises

evaluating the data entry in relation to the structured collection procedure using a membership rule set, where the membership rule set defines rules for associating data entries with structured collection procedures;

and

inputting the data entry into a logbook without an association to the structured collection procedure in accordance with a rule from the member rule set.

10. A computer-implemented method for managing reminders in an unreliable computing environment of a portable computing device, comprising:

creating, by a reminder module, a reminder for an event in a persistent data store residing on the computing device, where the reminder specifies a time at which to initiate a reminder and an acceptable range of times for the event to occur;

logging, by the reminder module, the reminder with an operating system of the computing device;

receiving, by the reminder module, a system message from the operating system and, in response thereto, logging the reminder with the operating system, where the system message indicates that outstanding reminders were cleared from the operating system;

receiving, by the reminder module, a reminder message from the operating system, where the reminder message is triggered by the reminder;

deleting, by the reminder module, the reminder from the data store when current time falls outside of the acceptable range of times for the event to occur; and

displaying, on a display of the computing device, a reminder notification when current time falls within the acceptable range of times for the event to occur.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprises

retrieving, by the reminder module, the reminder from the data store in response to receiving the reminder message from the operating system;

and

determining, by the reminder module, timeliness of the reminder message by comparing the current time to the acceptable range of times for the event to occur.

12. The method of claim 10 further comprises:

monitoring, by the reminder module, user interactions with the computing device for a triggering condition;

retrieving, by the reminder module, the reminder from the data store upon occurrence of the triggering condition;

querying, by the reminder module, the operating system for the reminder; and

logging, by the reminder module, the reminder with the operating system when the reminder is not logged with the operating system.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the trigger condition is further defined as navigating to a specified user interface of a diabetes management application residing on the computing device.

14. The method of claim 10 further comprises logging a second reminder with the operating system after displaying the reminder notification, where the reminder and the second reminder belong to a group of reoccurring reminders.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprises administering a structured collection procedure, where the structured collection procedure specifies two or more collection actions for obtaining blood glucose measures from a patient and the reminder is associated with one of the collection actions.