TIME MANAGEMENT FOR TIME-DEPENDENT THERAPY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES

• US 20190307957A1
• Filed: 04/10/2019
• Published: 10/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bigfoot Biomedical, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Bigfoot Biomedical, Inc.
• Inventors: Worden, Alexander Howard, McGowan, Kilty, Drozdz, Pawel, Naylor, Ross, Lee, Kevin S.
• Granted Patent: US 11,452,813 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/14208 with a programmable infusion control system, characterised by the infusion program
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3553 remote, e.g. between patient's home and doctor's office
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3561 local, e.g. within room or hospital
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/50 with microprocessors or computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/502 User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/52 with memories providing a history of measured variating parameters of apparatus or patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/201 Glucose concentration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/142 Pressure infusion, e.g. using pumps
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1723 using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood-sugar, pressure measurement of body parameters A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/14 Time supervision arrangements, e.g. real time clock
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A therapy delivery device stores a plurality of time-dependent therapy settings. The therapy delivery device is configured to administer time-dependent therapies according to the time-dependent therapy settings based on a universal conception of time that is independent of a local time zone. A mobile device includes a display adapted to depict information about therapy or therapy-related data as compared to a local time that is stored on the mobile device based on a local time zone setting found in the mobile device. The therapy delivery device and a mobile application executing on the mobile device are configured to keep separate clocks, with each clock being based on a universal concept of time that is independent of a local time zone.

Claims

1. A medication delivery system comprising:

a medication delivery device adapted to dispense medication, the medication delivery device comprising memory to store a medication delivery schedule or time-dependent dosage parameters based on a universal concept of time that is independent of a time zone in which the medication delivery device is located, the medication delivery device being further adapted to record medication delivery information or user actions, the medication delivery information or user actions being stored along with timestamps based on the universal concept of time; and

a remote computing device in communication with the medication delivery device, the remote computing device configured to receive the timestamped medication delivery information or user actions from the medication delivery device, and present a visual display of the medication delivery information or user actions along with times, wherein the displayed times are determined using the timestamps based on the universal concept of time adjusted based on the current time zone setting of the remote computing device.

2. The medication delivery system of claim 1, wherein:

the medication delivery device is further configured to receive blood glucose level information from a blood glucose monitor and store the blood glucose level information along with timestamps based on the universal concept of time that is independent of the time zone in which the medication delivery device is located; and

the remote computing device is further configured to receive the timestamped blood glucose level information from the medication delivery device, and present a visual display of the blood glucose level information along with times based on the universal concept of time at which the blood glucose levels were determined adjusted based on the current time zone setting of the remote computing device.

3. The medication delivery system of claim 2, wherein the remote computing device is configured to display the medication delivery information and the blood glucose level information concurrently.

4. The medication delivery system of claim 1, wherein the remote computing device is configured to convert the timestamps for the timestamped medication delivery information from times based on the universal concept of time to times based on the current time zone setting of the remote computing device using a mobile application clock maintained by a mobile application executing on the remote computing device that is distinct from an operating system clock of the remote computing device.

5. The medication delivery system of claim 4, wherein the mobile application clock is configured to use information indicating a current time zone for the remote computing device to determine a current time for the current time zone of the remote computing device independent of time zone settings of the remote computing device.

6. The medication delivery system of claim 4, wherein the mobile application clock is configured to use information indicating a current time zone for the remote computing device to determine a current time for the current time zone of the remote computing device independent of manual time settings of the remote computing device.

7. The medication delivery system of claim 4, wherein the mobile application executing on the remote computing device is configured to initialize the mobile application clock using a time based on the universal concept of time received from a server.

8. The medication delivery system of claim 7, wherein the server is a mobile application server for the mobile application.

9. The medication delivery system of claim 4, wherein the mobile application executing on the remote computing device is configured to initialize the mobile application clock using timestamped information received from the medication delivery device.

10. The medication delivery system of claim 9, wherein the timestamps for the timestamped information received from the medication delivery device are based on the universal concept of time.

11. The medication delivery system of claim 9, wherein the mobile application executing on the remote computing device is configured to maintain a universal concept of time for the mobile application clock by monitoring an elapsed time since the remote computing device was started or an elapsed time since the mobile application was initialized and comparing the elapsed time associated with information from the medication delivery device that indicates the universal concept of time to the current amount of elapsed time.

12. The medication delivery system of claim 1, wherein the medication delivery device is configured to maintain a delivery device clock that maintains a current time based on the universal concept of time.

13. The medication delivery system of claim 12, wherein the medication delivery device is configured to initialize the delivery device clock using time information received from the remote computing device.

14. The medication delivery system of claim 1, wherein the medication delivery device comprises a medication delivery pen and a cap affixed to the medication delivery pen.

15. The medication delivery system of claim 14, wherein the cap is a smart cap that includes the memory to store the medication delivery schedule or time-dependent dosage parameters.

16. The medication delivery system of claim 1, wherein the medication delivery device comprises:

a portable pump housing that receives a medication supply for dispensation to a user, the pump housing at least partially containing a pump drive system to dispense medication from the medication supply through a flow path to the user; and

a controller that communicates with the pump drive system to dispense the medication to the user based on the stored medication delivery schedule.

17. The medication delivery system of claim 1, wherein the remote computing device is a smartphone configured to wirelessly communicate with the medication delivery device.

18. A method for comprising:

maintaining, at a medication delivery device, a clock based on a universal concept of time that is independent of a time zone in which the medication delivery device is located;

storing, by the medication delivery device and in a memory of the medication delivery device, a medication delivery schedule or time-dependent dosage parameters based on the universal concept of time that is independent of a time zone in which the medication delivery device is located;

recording, by the medication delivery device, medication delivery information or user actions and timestamp information for the medication delivery information or user actions, wherein the timestamp information is based on the universal concept of time;

transmitting, by the medication delivery device to a remote computing device, the timestamped medication delivery information or user actions; and

presenting, by the remote computing device, a visual display of the medication delivery information or user actions along with times, wherein the displayed times are determined using the timestamps based on the universal concept of time adjusted based on the current time zone setting of the remote computing device.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

receiving, by the medication delivery device, blood glucose level information from a blood glucose monitor;

storing, by the medication delivery device and in the memory of the medication delivery device, the blood glucose level information along with timestamps based on the universal concept of time that is independent of the time zone in which the medication delivery device is located;

transmitting, by the medication delivery device to the remote computing device, the timestamped blood glucose level information from the medication delivery device;

presenting, by the remote computing device, a visual display of the blood glucose level information along with times based on the universal concept of time at which the blood glucose levels were determined adjusted based on the current time zone setting of the remote computing device.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

converting, by the remote computing device, the timestamped medication delivery information from times based on the universal concept of time to times based on the current time zone setting of the remote computing device using a mobile application clock maintained by a mobile application executing on the remote computing device that is distinct from an operating system clock of the remote computing device.