USER INTERFACE FEATURES FOR A DIABETES MANAGEMENT APPLICATION

• US 20130172706A1
• Filed: 05/02/2012
• Published: 07/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2011
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Carlsgaard, Eric S., Mears, Mark G., Reinke, Robert E., Adams, Justin David
• Granted Patent: US 10,258,293 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/365
• 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 contextualizing manual entries of blood glucose measures for a patient into a patient log of a portable computing device. The method includes: administering a structured collection procedure, where the structured collection procedure specifies two or more collection actions for obtaining blood glucose measures from a patient; generating a reminder notification for a given collection action of the structured collection procedure, where the given collection action is associated with a given event of patient; and displaying 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 an event associated with the blood glucose measure, such that value for the second input is defaulted to the given event from the reminder notification.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for contextualizing manual entries of blood glucose measures for a patient into a patient log of a portable computing device, comprising:

administering, by the computing device, a structured collection procedure, where the structured collection procedure specifies two or more collection actions for obtaining blood glucose measures from a patient;

generating, by the computing device, a reminder notification for a given collection action of the structured collection procedure;

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 specifying a type of 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.

receiving input via the data entry interface from the user of the computing device, including a value for a blood glucose measure in the first input; and

creating a data entry in a patient log using the input received from the user, the patient log residing in a data store on the computing device.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprises:

receiving an expected time for the given event from the user;

creating a reminder event for the given collection action in a calendar application, where the reminder event is calculated from the expected time for the given event and specifies a time at which to initiate a reminder notification; and

generating the reminder notification for the given collection action in accordance with the reminder event in the calendar application.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein each collection action of the structured collection procedure is associated an event type and the event type is selected from the group consisting of meal, sleep, exercise, fasting and insulin intake.

4. The method of claim 2 further comprises

defining an acceptance window for the given collection action, where the acceptance window is calculated from the expected time for the event and specifies a range of times for the given collection action;

and

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 2 further comprises

defining an acceptance window for the given collection action, where the acceptance window is calculated from the expected time for the event and specifies a range of times for the given collection action;

and

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 data entry interface further includes a status selection bar having a slide-able indicator, wherein the status selection bar represents a range of values for blood glucose measures and the indicator is slide-able along the status selection bar to select a value for a blood glucose measure.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the status bar having a graduated color scheme such that each color represents a sub-range of values for blood glucose measures.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the data entry interface further includes another input for associating an image file with the data entry.

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

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

10. 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.

11. A computer-implemented method for displaying results of an n-day patient profile to a user of a portable computing device, comprising

administering, by the computing device, a structured collection procedure over a period of n days, where the structured collection procedure specifies a plurality of predefined time slots for obtaining blood glucose measures from a patient throughout the course of a given day;

determining an orientation of a display of the computing device;

displaying, on a display of the computing device, a first graph for the structured collection procedure when a longitudinal axis of the display is orientated vertical, the first graph plots blood glucose measures from each of the n days on the first graph such that one axis of the first graph represents time during a single day and blood glucose measures from different days overlay each other on the first graph; and

displaying, on a display of the computing device, a second graph for the structured collection procedure when the longitudinal axis of the display is orientated horizontal, the second graph plots blood glucose measures for each of the n days along one axis of the second graph that represents time over the course of n days.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprises demarcating a range of acceptable blood glucose measures with visual indicia on at least one of the first graph and the second graph.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprises plotting blood glucose measures from different days with different visual indicia on at least one of the first graph and the second graph.

14. The method of claim 11 further comprises plotting blood glucose measures from different days with different colors on at least one of the first graph and the second graph.

15. The method of claim 11 wherein administering the structured collection procedure includes defining the plurality of predefined time slots from the group consisting of:

before breakfast;

after breakfast;

before lunch;

after lunch;

before dinner;

after dinner; and

bedtime.

16. The method of claim 11 wherein administering a structured collection procedure further includes

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

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.

17. The method of claim 11 wherein administering a structured collection procedure further includes

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

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.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprises analyzing the data entry in relation to the plurality of predefined time slots for the structure collection procedure, wherein the membership rule set pertaining to the structured collection procedure of the second type includes

a first rule that prohibits more than one collection event per time slot;

and

a second rule that requires each data entry associated with the structured collection procedure of the second type to match one of the predefined time slots.