Method and system for data selection and display

• US 20090150440A1
• Filed: 12/07/2007
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Yee, Wendy, Buck, Schuyler, Bush, Jason
• Granted Patent: US 8,132,101 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• 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 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A method and apparatus for concurrently displaying sets of data related to a medical condition, including a feature which enables the user to select one or more of the data sets for emphasized or more prominent display relative to the other data set(s).

Claims

1. A method for displaying data related to a medical condition, including the steps of:

enabling a user to select a first data set relating to the medical condition;

displaying the first data set on a display;

enabling the user to select a second data set relating to the medical condition;

concurrently displaying the second data set on the display;

enabling the user to select one of the first and the second data sets as a prominent data set; and

responding to a selection of a prominent data set by de-emphasizing the other of the first and the second data set not selected as the prominent data set.

2. The method of claim 1, further including the step of responding to the selection of the prominent data set by emphasizing the prominent data set.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and the second data sets have a common x-axis.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and the second data sets are displayed in a graph area of the display including a first y-axis associated with the first data set and a second y-axis associated with the second data set.

5. The method of claim 4, further including the step of de-emphasizing the y-axis associated with the other of the first and the second data set not selected as the prominent data set.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of enabling the user to select a first data set includes the step of displaying a dropdown menu of available data sets.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the medical condition is diabetes.

8. A system for displaying data related to a medical condition, including:

a data input component configured to permit user selection of sets of data;

a processor in communication with the data input component, the processor being configured to execute software instructions relating to the display of the data sets; and

a display which, under control of the processor, generates a screen including a graph area that concurrently displays the selected data sets, the screen further including a data settings area having options selectable using the data input component corresponding to the selected data sets;

wherein the processor responds to selection of a first option by causing the display to change the prominence of one of the data sets relative to another of the data sets.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the prominence of the one data set is changed in that the one data set is emphasized relative to the other data set.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the prominence of the one data set is changed in that the other data set is de-emphasized relative to the one data set.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the options are radio buttons and the data input component is a pointing device.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the graph area includes an x-axis that corresponds to more than one of the selected data sets.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the graph area includes a first y-axis associated with the one data set and a second y-axis associated with the other data set.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor responds to selection of the first option by changing the prominence of the first y-axis relative to the second y-axis.

15. The system of claim 8, further including a memory configured to store the software instructions and the data sets.

16. A machine-readable program including encoded instructions for a method of displaying data related to a medical condition, the method including the steps of

enabling a user to select at least two data sets relating to the medical condition;

concurrently displaying the data sets graphically on a display;

enabling the user to select one of the data sets as a prominent data set; and

changing the prominence of the prominent data set relative to at least one other data set.

17. The program of claim 16, wherein the changing step includes the step of increasing the prominence of the prominent data set relative to the other data set.

18. The program of claim 16, wherein the changing step includes the step of de-emphasizing the other data set.

19. The program of claim 16, wherein a single x-axis is associated with the at least two data sets.

20. The program of claim 16, wherein the step of enabling the user to select one of the data sets as a prominent data set includes the step of displaying a user-selectable option for each of the at least two data sets.

21. The program of claim 17, wherein one of the at least two data sets includes blood glucose data.