Graphical user interface pertaining to a bolus calculator residing on a handheld diabetes management device

• US 9,136,939 B2
• Filed: 08/27/2012
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Galley, Paul J., Mears, Mark G., Pash, Phillip E., Rizzo, Vincent R., Steiner, Bettina, Westerfield, Kristin M., Wilson, Richard W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sasaki, Shogo
• Application Number:
  US13/595,202
• Publication Number:
  US 20130172707A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,114 Days
• Field of Search: 700/266, 700/17, 700/18, 700/83, 702/19, 702/31, 702/32, 702/22, 600/365, 600/347
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0295 Strip shaped analyte sensors for apparatus classified in A61B5/145 or A61B5/157
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7435 Displaying user selection data, e.g. icons in a graphical user interface
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/35 Communication
• 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 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/502 User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/505 Touch-screens; Virtual keyboard or keypads; Virtual buttons; Soft keys; Mouse touches
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/201 Glucose concentration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• 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: F04C 2270/0421 Controlled or regulated
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/66 involving blood sugars, e.g. galactose
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 15/02 Reducing interference from electric apparatus by means located at or near the interfering apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/26 : at least one of which is mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 : Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/20 : Master-slave selection or change arrangements

Abstract

A handheld diabetes manager is presented with an improved graphical user interface for a bolus calculator. The bolus calculator is configured to receive blood glucose measurements from a blood glucose measurement module and operates, in response to an input, to compute an insulin recommendation for a patient based in part on the blood glucose measurements. The graphical user interface for the bolus calculator includes a health adjustment screen that enables a user to input a value for health events associated with the insulin recommendation, where the input value represents a cumulative effect of the health events on insulin of the patient and the health adjustment screen presents a different icon for each of the health events associated with the insulin recommendation.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for determining a bolus recommendation which accounts for multiple health events, comprising:

receiving, by a bolus calculator, a request for an insulin recommendation, where the request includes a blood glucose measure;

prompting, by the bolus calculator, a user with a health event selection screen to input one or more health events to be associated with the request for an insulin recommendation;

receiving, by the bolus calculator, indicia for two or more health events to be associated with the request for an insulin recommendation, where the indicia is received on the health event selection screen and in response to prompting the user;

prompting, by the bolus calculator, the user with a health adjustment screen for an input for the two or more health events associated with the request for an insulin recommendation, where the input represents a cumulative effect of the two or more health events on the insulin recommendation for the user;

receiving, by the bolus calculator, an input value from the user, where the input is received on the health adjustment screen and in response to prompting the user for an input; and

computing, by the bolus calculator, the insulin recommendation based in part on the input value received from the user, the bolus calculator implemented by a computer processor of a handheld diabetes management device.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprises computing an insulin recommendation for the patient without prompting for an adjustment value and in response to a determination that only one health event is associated with the request for an insulin recommendation.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the input value is a percentage such that a value for the insulin recommendation is adjusted in accordance with the percentage.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprises

receiving, by the bolus calculator, a blood glucose measurement;

starting a countdown timer in response to the receipt of the blood glucose measurement;

enabling an insulin recommendation function of the bolus calculator during the countdown timer; and

disabling the insulin recommendation function of the bolus calculator upon expiration of the countdown timer, where the steps of receiving a blood glucose measurement, starting a countdown timer, enabling an insulin recommendation function and disabling the insulin recommendation function occur before the step of receiving a request for an insulin recommendation.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprises displaying the countdown timer on one or more graphical user interfaces associated with the bolus calculator.