Handheld diabetes manager with a flight mode

• US 9,264,129 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2012
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Mears, Mark G., Nierzwick, Mark, Pash, Phillip E., Rizzo, Vincent R., Steiner, Bettina, Westerfield, Kristin M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sasaki, Shogo
• Application Number:
  US13/661,156
• Publication Number:
  US 20130172709A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,208 Days
• Field of Search: 700/17, 700/18, 700/83, 700/266, 340/539.12, 702/19, 702/22, 702/23, 702/25, 702/31, 702/32, 600/365
• 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 has a flight mode that cooperatively interacts with an external medical device and includes a port configured to receive a test strip for blood glucose measurement, a blood glucose measurement module operable with the test strip, a communications module and a user interface module. The communications module selectively communicates wirelessly with an external medical device. The user interface module communicates with the blood glucose measurement module and the communications module and operates to provide a graphical user interface on a display of the diabetes manager. The graphical user interface includes a screen with a flight mode option. When the flight mode option is enabled and the external medical device is paired and currently communicating with the diabetes manager, the user interface module interacts with the communication module to send a command to the external medical device to turn off wireless communication of the external medical device.

Claims

1. A diabetes management system including a handheld diabetes manager having a flight mode that cooperatively having a flight mode that cooperatively interacts with an external medical device and the external medical device being physically separated from the handheld diabetes manager, the handheld diabetes manager comprising:

a port formed in a housing of the handheld diabetes manager and configured to receive a test strip;

a blood glucose measurement module residing in the housing and cooperatively operable with the test strip inserted in the port for blood glucose measurement;

a display integrated into the housing;

a user interface module programmed to generate a graphical user interface on the display, wherein the graphical user interface includes a selector for enabling or disabling a flight mode and the user interface module is implemented by computer readable instructions executed by a processor in the handheld diabetes manager;

a communication module configured to selectively communicate via a wireless data link with the external medical device, wherein the communication module is powered on by the user interface module in response to an indicator from the user interface module that the flight mode is disabled and is powered down by the user interface module in response to an indicator from the user interface module that the flight mode is enabled; and

wherein the communication module is further configured to determine whether the handheld diabetes manager is paired with the external medical device and, in response to the indicator that the flight mode is enabled and a determination that the diabetes manager is paired with the external medical device, sends a flight mode command via the wireless data link to the external medical device, where the flight mode command includes a time interval after which the external medical device can resume communication with the diabetes manager.

2. The diabetes manager of claim 1, further comprises an external medical device in the form of an insulin pump.

3. The diabetes manager of claim 1, wherein the external medical device is a continuous glucose monitoring device.

4. The diabetes manager of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface includes a connectivity screen with inputs for pairing new devices with the diabetes manager and the user interface module, in response to the indicator that flight mode is enabled, disables pairing of new devices and grays out the inputs for pairing new devices on the connectivity screen.

5. The diabetes manager of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface includes a connectivity screen with inputs for managing new devices and the user interface module, in response to the indicator that flight mode is enabled, disables management of new devices and grays out the inputs for managing new devices on the connectivity screen.

6. The diabetes manager of claim 1, wherein the user interface module operates to display a warning on the graphical user interface in response to an error message received from the external medical device, where the error message is sent by the external medical device in reply to the turn off command received from the diabetes manager.

7. The diabetes manager of claim 1, wherein the user interface module displays a warning on the graphical user interface in response to a request for bolus advice and the indicator that flight mode is enabled.

8. The diabetes manager of claim 1, wherein the user interface module displays an icon that flight mode is enabled on the graphical user interface in response to the indicator that flight mode is enabled.

9. The diabetes manager of claim 8, wherein the user interface module displays a notification on the graphical user interface in response to the indicator that flight mode is enabled and the determination that the handheld diabetes manager is paired with the external medical device, where the notification indicates pairing information for the handheld diabetes manager and the external medical.