Personal condition management system

• US 20040044272A1
• Filed: 08/28/2003
• Published: 03/04/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LifeScan IP Holdings, LLC
• Original Assignee: Cilag Gmbh International (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Moerman, Piet, McAleer, Jerry, Oringer, Robert
• Application Number:
  US10/363,143
• Publication Number:
  US 20040044272A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• 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 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 3/10 for hyperglycaemia, e.g. antidiabetics
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 35/00 Antineoplastic agents
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 7/04 Antihaemorrhagics; Procoagulants; Haemostatic agents; Antifibrinolytic agents

Abstract

A personal condition management system comprising an input device, an advisory facility and an output device, wherein: said input device is adapted to communicate historical, current and/or prospective condition-relevant data to said advisory facility; said advisory facility is adapted to receive and store historical, current and/or prospective condition-relevant data from said input device and process said condition-relevant data to generate a treatment recommendation; and said output device is adapted to receive the treatment recommendation from the advisory facility and communicate receipt of said treatment recommendation to a

Claims

1. A personal condition management system comprising an input device, an advisory facility and an output device, wherein:

said input device is adapted to communicate historical, current and/or prospective condition-relevant data to said advisory facility;

said advisory facility is adapted to receive and store historical, current and/or prospective condition-relevant data from said input device and process said condition-relevant data to generate a treatment recommendation; and

said output device is adapted to receive the treatment recommendation from the advisory facility and communicate receipt of said treatment recommendation to a patient

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the advisory facility processes the condition-relevant data to provide a continuous estimate of the level of a condition-relevant analyte and generate a treatment recommendation when the analyte level is predicted to fall outside preset limits.

3. The system of claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the input device includes a meter in communication with the advisory facility for communicating to the advisory facility measurements of a condition-relevant fluid analyte.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the output from the meter is automatically inputted to the advisory facility.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the output of the meter is communicated to the advisory facility by wireless transmission.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the output of the meter is communicated to the advisory facility by docking a communications port on the meter with a communications port on the advisory facility.

7. The system of claim 3, wherein the advisory facility and the meter are part of a unitary instrument and the output from the meter is communicated to the advisory facility by hardwiring.

8. The system of any one of claims 2 to 7, wherein the meter is a glucose meter.

9. The system of any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the input device includes a dosing device in communication with the advisory facility for communicating to the advisory facility measurements of medication taken by a patient of the system.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the dosing device is adapted to receive dosing instructions from the advisory facility and administer a required dose to the patient.

11. The system of claim 10 or claim 11, wherein the output from the dosing device is automatically inputted to the advisory facility.

12. The system of claim 10 or claim 11, wherein the output of the dosing device is communicated to the advisory facility by wireless transmission.

13. The system of claim 10 or claim 11, wherein the output of the dosing device is communicated to the advisory facility by docking a communications port on the dosing device with a communications port on the advisory facility.

14. The system of any one of claims 1 to 13, wherein the input device includes means for measuring condition-relevant data on the patient'"'"'s body.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the measuring means is a blood pressure monitor, a heart rate monitor or an electrocardiogram.

16. The system of any one of claims 1 to 15, wherein the input device includes a display screen controlled by one or more buttons which allow the patient to scroll through a menu and select items to be input.

17. The system of any one of claims 1 to 16, wherein the input device includes a responsive display screen controlled by a stylus.

18. The system of any one of claims 1 to 17, wherein the input device includes voice recognition software.

19. The system of any one of claims 1 to 17, wherein the input device includes a keypad keyboard.

20. The system of any one of claims 1 to 19, wherein the advisory facility comprises a microcomputer which is controlled by an algorithm.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the algorithm is able to “

learn”

about an individual patient.

22. The system of claim 20 or claim 21, wherein the algorithm is defined by a health care professional.

23. The system of any one of claims 1 to 22, wherein the advisory facility is reprogrammable.

24. The system of any one of claims 1 to 23, wherein the output device is an audible, tactile or visual device.

25. The system of any one of claims 1 to 24, wherein the output device is, or additionally includes, a mobile telephone which is programmed to telephone or send a text message to one or more particular telephone numbers.

26. The system of any one of claims 1 to 25, wherein the output device displays or makes audible the treatment recommendation.

27. The system of any one of claims 1 to 26, which further includes means for interfacing the system with other systems.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein the interfacing means comprises a communications port for docking with a general purpose computer system or a wireless communication facility.

29. The system of any one of claims 1 to 28, wherein the treatment recommendations take the form of a graphical representation of prospective prediction of what the evolution of glucose levels would be.

30. The system of claim 29, wherein the patient can change some of the variables so to find the safe and therapeutic evolution of glucose levels for the near future.

31. A personal condition management system comprising:

an input device for receiving condition-relevant data; and

an advisory facility for processing the condition-relevant data and generating a treatment recommendation for treating the condition.

32. The system of claim 31, wherein the system is adapted to transfer the treatment recommendation to a health care practitioner.

33. The system of claim 31 or claim 32, wherein the condition is diabetes and the treatment recommendation comprises a recommended insulin dose.

34. The system of any one of claims 31 to 33, wherein the condition is diabetes and the condition-relevant data includes prospective data related to food intake, exercise and insulin dosage.

35. An intelligent glucose meter for meaning and/or predicting glucose levels and managing diabetes in a patient, comprising;

an input unit for receiving diabetes-relevant data for the patient;

an advisory facility for storing said diabetes-relevant data and instructions for generating a treatment recommendation in response to said diabetes-relevant data and for executing said instructions and generating said treatment recommendation; and

an output unit for transferring said treatment recommendation to the patient.

36. The intelligent glucose meter of claim 35, further comprising a communications link for transferring the treatment recommendation to a health care practitioner.

37. A method of managing diabetes in a patent comprising:

providing an intelligent glucose meter for measuring and/or predicting glucose levels and managing diabetes in a patient comprising;

an input unit for nerving diabetes-relevant data for the patient;

an advisory facility for storing said diabetes-relevant data and instructions for generating a treatment recommendation in response to said diabetes-relevant data and for executing said instructions and generating said treatment recommendation, and an output unit for transferring said treatment recommendation to the patient;

entering diabetes-relevant data through the input facility;

executing the instructions to provide a treatment recommendation in response to the diabetes-relevant data; and

transferring said treatment recommendation to a patient.