Device, method, and graphical user interface for searching, filtering and displaying event-aligned information sets related to diabetes

• US 8,579,815 B2
• Filed: 06/10/2009
• Issued: 11/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Galley, Paul J., Price, John F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Natnithithadha, Navin
• Application Number:
  US12/481,956
• Publication Number:
  US 20100317950A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,616 Days
• Field of Search: 600/309, 600345-366, 600/300
• US Class Current: 600/365
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying diabetes related information sets aligned by the occurrence of a particular event are disclosed. After receiving a request for an event-aligned display of diabetes related information based on an event, a search for a plurality of tagged occurrences of the event and retrieval of an information set for each of the plurality of tagged occurrences is provided. Each information set may include diabetes related information chronologically related to the tagged occurrence. The retrieved information sets is displayed on a display, wherein the retrieved information sets are shown on the display aligned by their tagged occurrences such that all diabetes related information is positioned relative the event based on its chronological relationship with the event.

Claims

1. A method for displaying diabetes related information comprising:

tagging at least manually with user defined identifying information in a diary database occurrences of various events, which repeat at least sporadically, to correlate the tagged occurrences of the various events with diary records such that a plurality of tagged occurrences are defined;

receiving by a processor, via an input terminal, a request for an event-aligned display of diabetes related information based on an event from the various events, the request being at least an exact word or categorical title;

searching, via the processor, the plurality of tagged occurrences in the dairy database for tagged occurrences of the event matching the request;

retrieving, via the processor, an information set for each of the plurality of tagged occurrences from the diary database that match the request, wherein each information set comprises diabetes related information chronologically related to the tagged occurrence; and

displaying the retrieved information sets on a display, wherein the retrieved information sets are shown by the processor on the display aligned by their tagged occurrences such that all diabetes related information are positioned relative the event based on their chronological relationship with the event.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein tagged occurrences comprise exercise, illness, stress, menstrual state, meal, ketosis, and/or therapeutic changes.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising tagging occurrences automatically based on the diabetes related information or external conditions.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the diabetes related information comprises glucose levels and events of hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia are automatically tagged when a glucose level drops below or rises above a threshold value.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein each information set may be selectively removed from the display.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein searching for a plurality of tagged occurrences comprises searching backwards in time from a most recent tagged occurrence.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the plurality of tagged occurrences comprises between four and seven tagged occurrences.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the diabetes related information comprises glucose levels.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the glucose levels are obtained via a continuous blood glucose meter.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein displaying the information sets is performed on a touch screen display providing a graphical user interface which also receives the request.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the display may be scrolled forward or backwards in time.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein each of the plurality of information sets may selectively be displayed through engaging the touch screen display.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising tagging the tagged occurrences with additional categorical information such that a variety of search requests would find the same event.

14. A device for searching, filtering and displaying event-aligned information sets related to diabetes, comprising:

a display;

an input terminal for making a request for an event-aligned display of diabetes related information based on an event, the request being at least an exact word or categorical title;

memory for storing the diabetes related information and instructions;

a processor in communication with the memory and operable to execute the instructions, the instructions causing the processor;

to tag in memory occurrences of various events, which repeat at least sporadically, with at least manually entered user defined identifying information to correlate the tagged occurrences of the various events with diary records contained in memory such that a plurality of tagged occurrences are defined,

to receive via the input device the request for the event-aligned display of diabetes related information based on the event from the various events,

to search the plurality of tagged occurrences for tagged occurrences of the event matching the request and retrieve an information set for each of the tagged occurrences that match the search request, the information sets comprising diabetes related information chronologically related to the tagged occurrences, and

to display on the display such retrieved information sets wherein the retrieved information sets are aligned by their tagged occurrences such that all diabetes related information is positioned relative the event based on its chronological relationship with the event.

15. The device of claim 14 wherein the display comprises a touch screen display.

16. The device of claim 14 further comprising communications hardware enabling communications with a server having a diary database, wherein the device stores the diabetes related information contained in the memory to the diary database of the server through said communications.

17. The device of claim 14 wherein the device is a blood glucose meter.

18. The device of claim 14 wherein the instructions further causes the processor to tag the tagged occurrences with additional categorical information such that a variety of search requests would find the same event.