Method for controlling insulin pump through internet

• US 7,231,263 B2
• Filed: 10/10/2006
• Issued: 06/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Soo Bong Choi
• Original Assignee: Soo Bong Choi
• Inventors: Choi, Soo Bong
• Primary Examiner(s): Knight; Anthony
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hartman, Jr.; Ronald D
• Application Number:
  US11/546,110
• Publication Number:
  US 20070032891A1
• Time in Patent Office: 245 Days
• Field of Search: 700 17- 20, 700/83, 700/65, 604 65- 67, 604/154
• US Class Current: 700/17
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0295 Strip shaped analyte sensors for apparatus classified in A61B5/145 or A61B5/157 disposable multilayered or laminated electrodes G01N27/307; details of handling chemical test elements G01N33/4875
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• 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: G05B 2219/31206 Exchange of parameters, data, programs between two station, station and central or host or remote
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32126 Hyperlink, access to program modules and to hardware modules in www, web server, browser
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A method for controlling an insulin pump through the Internet. The method comprises the steps of ascertaining whether a logged-in person is a physician; determining the logged-in person as a nurse when the logged-in person is not a physician, receiving a patient'"'"'s blood sugar level data and generating a command to change an insulin injection amount; checking whether the logged-in person is an attending physician when the logged-in person is a physician, and changing the logged-in person to an attending physician when the logged-in person is not an attending physician; and driving a corresponding insulin pump having the patient'"'"'s ID by transmitting through the Internet and Bluetooth modules a new prescription made in consideration of a current blood sugar level measurement and insulin injection amount, when the logged-in person is an attending physician or when the logged-in person is changed to an attending physician.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an insulin pump through the Internet, comprising the steps of:

providing an insulin pump, a blood sugar level measuring device and a personal digital assistant in which wireless communication protocol modules are built, respectively, so that the wireless modules transmit and receive signals through the medium of a wireless communication device installed on a main board of a main unit of a computer and that the main unit of the computer and the PDA are connected through the Internet with a server which sends a command to the insulin pump;

logging in as an authorized user of said server;

ascertaining whether or not a logged-in person is a physician;

determining the logged-in person as a nurse when the logged-in person is not a physician, receiving the patient'"'"'s blood sugar level data and generating said command to change an insulin injection amount;

checking whether or not the logged-in person is an attending physician when the logged-in person is a physician, and changing the logged-in person to an attending physician when the logged-in person is not an attending physician; and

driving said insulin pump corresponding to a patient'"'"'s ID by transmitting through the Internet and the modules a new prescription made in consideration of a current blood sugar level measurement and insulin injection amount, when the logged-in person is an attending physician or when the logged-in person is changed to an attending physician.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the determining step comprises the sub steps of:

downloading the patient'"'"'s ID and data of a registered hospital;

receiving the patient'"'"'s blood sugar level measurement data through classification according to said patients ID;

commanding a corresponding prescription determined on the basis of the blood sugar level measurement data, to the insulin pump which is used by the patient having the corresponding patients ID; and

updating and storing data downloaded and uploaded to and from the blood sugar level measuring device and the insulin pump, in real time through classification according to the patients ID.

3. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the driving step comprises the sub steps of:

downloading data for the patient which is under treatment by the attending physician;

confirming whether or not there exists a prescription regarding insulin injection amount which is set and inputted by the attending physician;

inputting the prescription to the main unit of the computer when the prescription exists; and

transmitting a command from the main unit to the insulin pump having the corresponding patients ID.