System for optimizing a patient's insulin dosage regimen
First Claim
1. A system for updating a patients'"'"' insulin dosage regimen, the system comprising:
- at least one memory for storing data corresponding at least to one or more components of a patient'"'"'s present insulin dosage regimen, and data corresponding at least to the patient'"'"'s blood-glucose-level measurements measured at a plurality of times during a predetermined time period; and
at least one processor operatively connected to the at least one memory, the at least one processor configured to;
initiate a timer to monitor the predetermined time period;
increment the timer based on at least one of the passage of a predetermined increment of time and the receipt of at least one of the plurality of blood glucose-level measurements;
tag the plurality of blood glucose-level measurements with an identifier reflective of when the measurement was obtained;
determine, after obtaining one of the plurality of blood glucose-level measurements but before obtaining a subsequent blood glucose-level measurement, whether the obtained blood glucose-level measurement reflects a hypoglycemic event or a severe hypoglycemic event;
reduce at least one of the one or more components in the patient'"'"'s insulin dosage regimen in response to the determination that the most recently obtained blood glucose-level measurement represents a severe hypoglycemic event;
reduce at least one of the one or more components in the patient'"'"'s insulin dosage regimen in response to a determination that the most recently obtained blood glucose-level measurement results in an excessive number of hypoglycemic events during the predetermined time period;
wherein the timer is reinitiated after the determination that there have been an excessive number of hypoglycemic events over the predetermined amount of time; and
determine, at the end of the predetermined time period, from a plurality of the data corresponding to the patient'"'"'s blood glucose-level measurements whether and by how much to vary at least one of the one or more components in the patient'"'"'s present insulin dosage regimen in order to maintain the patient'"'"'s blood glucose-level measurements within a predefined range;
wherein the timer is reinitiated after the determination of whether and by how much to vary at least one of the one or more components in the patient'"'"'s present insulin dosage regimen.
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Abstract
A system for optimizing a patient'"'"'s insulin dosage regimen over time, comprising at least a first memory for storing data inputs corresponding at least to one or more components in a patient'"'"'s present insulin dosage regimen, and data inputs corresponding at least to the patient'"'"'s blood-glucose-level measurements determined at a plurality of times, and a processor operatively connected to the at least first memory. The processor is programmed at least to determine from the data inputs corresponding to the patient'"'"'s blood-glucose-level measurements determined at a plurality of times whether and by how much to vary at least one of the one or more components in the patient'"'"'s present insulin dosage regimen in order to maintain the patient'"'"'s future blood-glucose-level measurements within a predefined range.
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32 Claims
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1. A system for updating a patients'"'"' insulin dosage regimen, the system comprising:
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at least one memory for storing data corresponding at least to one or more components of a patient'"'"'s present insulin dosage regimen, and data corresponding at least to the patient'"'"'s blood-glucose-level measurements measured at a plurality of times during a predetermined time period; and at least one processor operatively connected to the at least one memory, the at least one processor configured to; initiate a timer to monitor the predetermined time period; increment the timer based on at least one of the passage of a predetermined increment of time and the receipt of at least one of the plurality of blood glucose-level measurements; tag the plurality of blood glucose-level measurements with an identifier reflective of when the measurement was obtained; determine, after obtaining one of the plurality of blood glucose-level measurements but before obtaining a subsequent blood glucose-level measurement, whether the obtained blood glucose-level measurement reflects a hypoglycemic event or a severe hypoglycemic event; reduce at least one of the one or more components in the patient'"'"'s insulin dosage regimen in response to the determination that the most recently obtained blood glucose-level measurement represents a severe hypoglycemic event; reduce at least one of the one or more components in the patient'"'"'s insulin dosage regimen in response to a determination that the most recently obtained blood glucose-level measurement results in an excessive number of hypoglycemic events during the predetermined time period;
wherein the timer is reinitiated after the determination that there have been an excessive number of hypoglycemic events over the predetermined amount of time; anddetermine, at the end of the predetermined time period, from a plurality of the data corresponding to the patient'"'"'s blood glucose-level measurements whether and by how much to vary at least one of the one or more components in the patient'"'"'s present insulin dosage regimen in order to maintain the patient'"'"'s blood glucose-level measurements within a predefined range;
wherein the timer is reinitiated after the determination of whether and by how much to vary at least one of the one or more components in the patient'"'"'s present insulin dosage regimen. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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