Management method and system for implementation, execution, data collection, and data analysis of a structured collection procedure which runs on a collection device
First Claim
1. A collection device for performing a structured collection procedure on a patient which addresses a medical use case or question, said device comprising:
- a portable electronic device comprising a blood glucose meter configured for determining and storing a biomarker value;
a memory;
a user interface;
a processor connected to the memory and the user interface; and
program instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to;
receive via the user interface a defined medical use case or question,select automatically a structured collection procedure from a plurality of structured collection procedures, each comprising at least a primary schedule of events and a secondary schedule of events, based on and matching the defined medical use case or question received via the user interface,initiate automatically the primary schedule of events of the selected structured collection procedure upon the processor determining that one or more entry criterions have been met, in which the one or more entry criterions comprises at least one specific question to which the processor requires a specific answer to be received from the patient via input from the user interface before the primary schedule of events is started,provide guidance to collect biomarker data according to an event scheduled in the primary schedule of events of the selected structured collection procedure,store in the memory a use case parameter which identifies the defined medical use case or question which the selected structured collection procedure is addressing, and patient data comprising the biomarker data collected in accordance with the event in the primary schedule of events, said patient data being associated with the event and the use case parameter, wherein the event provides context to the associated patient data, thereby defining contextual data,end automatically the selected structured collection procedure upon the processor determining that one or more context specific exit criterions have been met, in which the one or more context specific exit criterions establishes at least one requirement for exiting or completing the selected structured collection procedure such that the selected structured collection procedure has adequate contextual data to address the defined medical use case or question being addressed, wherein the processor continues automatically to a next event scheduled in the primary schedule of events by which to collect further patient data until the one or more context specific exit criterions are met,mark the selected structured collection procedure as completed based upon no exception occurring during performance of the event in the primary schedule of events, wherein the selected structured collection procedure can be used only once, and wherein each successive download of the selected structured collection procedure requires access from an authorized user with a valid ID,indicate non-completion of the selected structured collection procedure upon one or more exceptions occurring,dynamically change the selected structured collection procedure by switching to the secondary schedule of events upon the one or more exceptions occurring and fill missing data caused by the one or more exceptions with at least one of historical data and an estimate from historical data, andupon the one or more exceptions occurring;
mark the patient data comprising the biomarker data collected in accordance with the event in the primary schedule of events as invalid;
cancel all remaining events in the primary schedule of events for a current day; and
reschedule the primary schedule of events for a next day after the current day;
wherein the collection device is communicatively coupled to a computer, wherein the computer provides a graphical user interface to implement the selected structured collection procedure on the collection device.
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Abstract
Embodiments related to a system and method managing the implementation, execution, data collection, and data analysis of a structured collection procedure running on a portable, hand-held collection device are disclosed. The collection device performing the structured collection procedure has program instructions that when executed by a processor causes the processor to initiate automatically a schedule of events of the structured collection procedure upon one or more entry criterions being met at some unknown time, store in memory patient data collected in accordance to the schedule of events, end automatically the structured collection procedure upon one or more exit criterions being met at some unknown time, and mark/indicate the structured collection procedure as completed if no exception occurred during performance of an event in the schedule of events.
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42 Claims
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1. A collection device for performing a structured collection procedure on a patient which addresses a medical use case or question, said device comprising:
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a portable electronic device comprising a blood glucose meter configured for determining and storing a biomarker value; a memory; a user interface; a processor connected to the memory and the user interface; and program instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to; receive via the user interface a defined medical use case or question, select automatically a structured collection procedure from a plurality of structured collection procedures, each comprising at least a primary schedule of events and a secondary schedule of events, based on and matching the defined medical use case or question received via the user interface, initiate automatically the primary schedule of events of the selected structured collection procedure upon the processor determining that one or more entry criterions have been met, in which the one or more entry criterions comprises at least one specific question to which the processor requires a specific answer to be received from the patient via input from the user interface before the primary schedule of events is started, provide guidance to collect biomarker data according to an event scheduled in the primary schedule of events of the selected structured collection procedure, store in the memory a use case parameter which identifies the defined medical use case or question which the selected structured collection procedure is addressing, and patient data comprising the biomarker data collected in accordance with the event in the primary schedule of events, said patient data being associated with the event and the use case parameter, wherein the event provides context to the associated patient data, thereby defining contextual data, end automatically the selected structured collection procedure upon the processor determining that one or more context specific exit criterions have been met, in which the one or more context specific exit criterions establishes at least one requirement for exiting or completing the selected structured collection procedure such that the selected structured collection procedure has adequate contextual data to address the defined medical use case or question being addressed, wherein the processor continues automatically to a next event scheduled in the primary schedule of events by which to collect further patient data until the one or more context specific exit criterions are met, mark the selected structured collection procedure as completed based upon no exception occurring during performance of the event in the primary schedule of events, wherein the selected structured collection procedure can be used only once, and wherein each successive download of the selected structured collection procedure requires access from an authorized user with a valid ID, indicate non-completion of the selected structured collection procedure upon one or more exceptions occurring, dynamically change the selected structured collection procedure by switching to the secondary schedule of events upon the one or more exceptions occurring and fill missing data caused by the one or more exceptions with at least one of historical data and an estimate from historical data, and upon the one or more exceptions occurring; mark the patient data comprising the biomarker data collected in accordance with the event in the primary schedule of events as invalid; cancel all remaining events in the primary schedule of events for a current day; and reschedule the primary schedule of events for a next day after the current day; wherein the collection device is communicatively coupled to a computer, wherein the computer provides a graphical user interface to implement the selected structured collection procedure on the collection device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 27, 28)
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15. A system for managing implementation, execution, data collection, and a data analysis of a structured collection procedure, said system comprising:
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a collection device wherein the collection device is a blood glucose meter comprising; a portable electronic device configured for determining and storing a biomarker value; a memory; a user interface; a processor connected to the memory and the user interface; and program instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to; receive via the user interface a defined medical use case or question, select automatically a structured collection procedure from a plurality of structured collection procedures, each comprising at least a primary schedule of events and a secondary schedule of events, based on and matching the defined medical use case or question received via the user interface, initiate automatically the primary schedule of events of the selected structured collection procedure upon the processor determining that one or more entry criterions have been met, in which the one or more entry criterions comprises at least one specific question to which the processor requires a specific answer to be received from a patient via input from the user interface before the primary schedule of events is started, provide guidance to collect biomarker data according to an event scheduled in the primary schedule of events of the selected structured collection procedure, store in the memory a use case parameter which identifies the defined medical use case or question which the selected structured collection procedure is addressing, and patient data comprising the biomarker data collected in accordance with the event in the primary schedule of events, said patient data being associated with the event and the use case parameter, wherein the event provides context to the associated patient data, thereby defining contextual data, end automatically the selected structured collection procedure upon the processor determining that one or more context specific exit criterions have been met, in which the one or more context specific exit criterions establishes at least one requirement for exiting or completing the structured collection procedure such that the selected structured collection procedure has adequate contextual data to address the defined medical use case or question being addressed, wherein the processor continues automatically to a next event scheduled in the primary schedule of events by which to collect further patient data until the one or more context specific exit criterions are met, mark the selected structured collection procedure as completed based upon no exception occurring during performance of the event in the primary schedule of events, wherein the selected structured collection procedure can be used only once, and wherein each successive download of the selected structured collection procedure requires access from an authorized user with a valid ID, indicate non-completion of the selected structured collection procedure upon an exception one or more exceptions occurring, dynamically change the selected structured collection procedure by switching to the secondary schedule of events upon the one or more exceptions occurring and fill missing data caused by the one or more exceptions with at least one of historical data and an estimate from historical data, and upon the one or more exceptions occurring; mark the patient data comprising the biomarker data collected in accordance with the event in the primary schedule of events as invalid; cancel all remaining events in the primary schedule of events for a current day; and reschedule the primary schedule of events for a next day after the current day; wherein the collection device is communicatively coupled to a computer, wherein the computer provides a graphical user interface to implement the selected structured collection procedure on the collection device. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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25. A collection device for performing a structured collection procedure, said device comprising a blood glucose meter comprising:
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a memory for storing patient data comprising collected biomarker data, a date-time stamp, a completion flag, and other data associated with each instance of the collected biomarker data obtained according to a selected structured collection procedure, said other data comprising contextualized data which characterizes associated collected biomarker; an input means; a processor connected to the memory and the input means; and program instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to; receive via the input means a defined medial use case or question, select automatically the selected structured collection procedure from a plurality of structured collection procedures, each comprising at least a primary schedule of events and a secondary schedule of events, stored in the memory, based on and matching the defined medical use case or question, retrieve automatically from memory the selected structured collection procedure having parameters defining;
entry criterions which establish conditions needed to be met prior to obtaining biomarker data, the primary schedule of events, each event of said primary schedule of events comprising at least one or more of a performance time, guidance to perform the event, a request for one or more of information, patient actions, and a collection of at least one type of biomarker data, and context specific exit criterions which establish the conditions needed to be met prior to exiting the selected structured collection procedure, andinitiate automatically the primary schedule of events of the selected structured collection procedure upon the entry criterions being met, in which the one or more entry criterions comprises at least one specific question to which the processor requires a specific answer to be received from the patient via input from the input means before the primary schedule of events is started, provide guidance to collect biomarker data according to an event scheduled in the primary schedule of events of the selected structured collection procedure, store in the memory a use case parameter which identifies the defined medical use case or question which the selected structured collection procedure is addressing, and the patient data comprising the biomarker data collected in accordance to the primary schedule of events, wherein the biomarker data is collected after the primary schedule of events is initiated, said patient data being associated with the event and the use case parameter, wherein the event provides context to the associated patient data, thereby defining contextual data, end automatically the selected structured collection procedure upon the context specific exit criterions being met, in which the one or more context specific exit criterions establishes at least one requirement for exiting or completing the selected structured collection procedure such that the selected structured collection procedure has adequate contextual data to address the defined medical use case or question being addressed, wherein the processor continues automatically to a next event scheduled in the primary schedule of events by which to collect further patient data until the one or more context specific exit criterions are met, indicate the selected structured collection procedure as completed based upon no exception occurring during performance of a critical event in the primary schedule of events to collect the biomarker data, wherein the selected structured collection procedure can be used only once, and wherein each successive download of the selected structured collection procedure requires access from an authorized user with a valid ID, otherwise indicate non-completion of the selected structured collection procedure upon an exception one or more exceptions occurring during performance of the critical event in the primary schedule of events, dynamically change the primary structured collection procedure by switching to the secondary schedule of events upon the one or more exceptions occurring and fill missing data caused by the one or more exceptions with at least one of historical data and an estimate from historical data, and upon the one or more exceptions occurring; mark the patient data comprising the biomarker data collected in accordance with the event in the primary schedule of events as invalid; cancel all remaining events in the primary schedule of events for a current day; and reschedule the primary schedule of events for a next day after the current day; wherein the collection device is communicatively coupled to a computer, wherein the computer provides a graphical user interface to implement the selected structured collection procedure on the collection device.
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26. A method of managing a structured collection procedure comprising:
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providing a collection device comprising a blood glucose meter with program instructions; receiving via a user interface a defined medical use case or question; downloading to the collection device a selected structured collection procedure comprising at least a primary schedule of events and a secondary schedule of events to the collection device based on and matching the defined medical use case or question to be addressed; and executing the program instructions on the collection device which cause a processor of the collection device to; initiate automatically the primary schedule of events of the selected structured collection procedure upon one or more entry criterions being met, in which the one or more entry criterions comprises at least one specific question to which the processor requires a specific answer to be received from the patient via input from the user interface before the primary schedule of events is started, provide guidance to collect biomarker data according to an event scheduled in the primary schedule of events of the selected structured collection procedure, store in memory a use case parameter which identifies the defined medical use case or question which the selected structured collection procedure is addressing, and patient data comprising biomarker data collected in accordance to the primary schedule of events, wherein the biomarker data is collected after the primary schedule of events is initiated, said patient data being associated with the event and the use case parameter, wherein the event provides context to the associated patient data, thereby defining contextual data, end automatically the selected structured collection procedure upon one or more context specific exit criterions being met, in which the one or more context specific exit criterions establishes at least one requirement for exiting or completing the selected structured collection procedure such that the selected structured collection procedure has adequate contextual data to address the defined medical use case or question being addressed, wherein the primary schedule of events of the selected structured collection procedure continues automatically onto a next event in the primary schedule of events by which to collect further patient data until the one or more context specific exit criterions are met, indicate completion of the selected structured collection procedure based upon no exception occurring during performance of an event in the schedule of events, wherein the selected structured collection procedure can be used only once, and wherein each successive download of the selected structured collection procedure requires access from an authorized user with a valid ID, indicate non-completion of the selected structured collection procedure upon an exception one or more exceptions occurring, dynamically change the selected structured collection procedure by switching to the secondary schedule of events upon the one or more exceptions occurring and fill missing data caused by the one or more exceptions with at least one of historical data and an estimate from historical data, and upon the one or more exceptions occurring; mark the patient data comprising the biomarker data collected in accordance with the event in the primary schedule of events as invalid; cancel all remaining events in the primary schedule of events for a current day; and reschedule the primary schedule of events for a next day after the current day; wherein the collection device is communicatively coupled to a computer, wherein the computer provides a graphical user interface to implement the selected structured collection procedure on the collection device. - View Dependent Claims (29)
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