Method and system for manipulating groups of data representations of a graphical display

• US 8,237,715 B2
• Filed: 09/05/2008
• Issued: 08/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Buck, Schuyler, Bush, Jason, Greenburg, Alan, Markisohn, David Bradley, Organ, Leon R. III
• Primary Examiner(s): Sams, Michelle L
• Application Number:
  US12/205,582
• Publication Number:
  US 20100064243A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,432 Days
• Field of Search: 345/440, 345/440.2
• US Class Current: 345/440
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• 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 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection

Abstract

A system is disclosed wherein a graphical representation of a profile may be adjusted to adjust one or more values of the profile. The profile may includes data values corresponding to respective time periods. The data values being represented by data representations in the graphical representation. A non-contiguous grouping of the data representations may be selected by an operator to adjust the data values of the profile corresponding to the non-contiguous grouping of data representations. A contiguous grouping of the data representations may be selected by an operator to adjust the data values of the profile corresponding to the non-contiguous grouping of data representations.

Claims

1. A method for adjusting data values via a medical apparatus programming device, including the steps of:

displaying a plurality of data representations in a graphical format on a display of the medical apparatus programming device, each data representation corresponding to a data value of a profile;

receiving a selection of a first portion of the plurality of data representations, the first portion of the plurality of data representations including a non-contiguous group of the plurality of data representations;

receiving at least one input to simultaneously adjust the data representations of the non-contiguous group of data representations without adjusting data representations not part of the non-contiguous group of data representations; and

adjusting the data values of the profile corresponding to the data representations of the non-contiguous group of data representations based on the received at least one input without adjusting data representations not part of the non-contiguous group of data representations.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of receiving the at least one input to simultaneously adjust the data representations of the non-contiguous group of data representations includes the step of altering the plurality of data representations of the first portion to represent one of a reduction in the corresponding data values of the profile by a first offset and an increase in the corresponding data values of the profile by a second offset.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the plurality of data representations are bar segments of a bar graph and the step of altering the plurality of data representations of the non-contiguous group to represent one of a reduction in the corresponding data values of the profile by a first offset and an increase in the corresponding data values of the profile by a second offset includes the step of with a pointer device simultaneously dragging a current height of each the bar segments of the first portion to an adjusted height corresponding to one of the first offset from the current height and the second offset from the current height.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the plurality of data representations are bar segments of a bar graph and the step of altering the plurality of data representations of the non-contiguous group to represent one of a reduction in the corresponding data values of the profile by a first offset and an increase in the corresponding data values of the profile by a second offset includes the step of with a keyboard simultaneously moving a current height of each the bar segments of the first portion to an adjusted height corresponding to one of the first offset from the current height and the second offset from the current height, a first key of the keyboard being used to move the current height of each of the bar segments of the non-contiguous group to the adjusted height corresponding to the first offset and a second key of the keyboard being used to move the current height of each of the bar segments of the non-contiguous group to the adjusted height corresponding to the second offset.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of receiving at least one input includes receiving at least one input to simultaneously adjust the data representations of the non-contiguous group of data representations without adjusting data representations not part of the non-contiguous group of data representations;

and the step of adjusting the data values includes adjusting the data values of the profile corresponding to the data representations of the non-contiguous group of data representations based on the received at least one input without adjusting data representations not part of the non-contiguous group of data representations.

6. A method of adjusting insulin basal rates for an insulin pump, the method including the steps of:

receiving a plurality of insulin basal profiles from the insulin pump by a medical device, each of the plurality of insulin basal profiles providing insulin basal rates for a plurality of time periods of a twenty-four hour period;

storing the plurality of insulin basal profiles;

displaying a first graphical representation of each of the plurality of insulin basal profiles;

receiving a selection of a first insulin basal profile of the plurality of insulin basal profiles,

displaying a second graphical representation of the first insulin basal profile, the second graphical representation including a first axis indicating a time scale, a second axis indicating an insulin basal rate scale, and a plurality of data representations each data representation corresponding to a time period of the plurality of time periods and providing an indication of a corresponding insulin basal rate for the time period;

receiving a selection of a first non-contiguous grouping of data representations corresponding to a first non-contiguous grouping of time periods of the first insulin basal rate profile;

simultaneously adjusting the first non-contiguous grouping of data representations to adjust an indication of the corresponding insulin basal rate for each of the time periods of the first non-contiguous grouping of time periods without adjusting data representations not part of the non-contiguous group of data representations;

storing an adjusted first insulin basal rate profile, the adjusted first insulin basal rate profile including adjusted insulin basal rates for the first non-contiguous grouping of time periods, the adjusted insulin basal rates being based on the adjusted first non-contiguous grouping of data representations; and

communicating the adjusted first insulin basal rate profile to the insulin pump.

7. The method of 6, wherein the plurality of data representations are bar segments and the indication of the corresponding insulin basal rate for each of the plurality of data representations includes a height of the corresponding bar segment.

8. The method of 7, wherein the step of receiving the selection of the first non-contiguous grouping of data representations corresponding to the first non-contiguous grouping of time periods of the first insulin basal rate profile includes the steps of:

receiving a first input selecting a first bar segment of the bar segments of the first non-contiguous grouping of data representations; and

receiving a second input selecting a second bar segment of the bar segments of the first non-contiguous grouping of data representations; and

wherein the step of simultaneously adjusting the first non-contiguous grouping of time periods includes the steps of;

receiving a third input corresponding to adjusting a height of the first non-contiguous grouping of data representations including a first adjusted height corresponding to the first bar segment and a second adjusted height corresponding to the second bar segment; and

displaying the plurality of bar segments corresponding to the first non-contiguous grouping of data representations, the first bar segment being displayed with the first adjusted height and the second bar segment being displayed with the second adjusted height.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of receiving the selection of the first non-contiguous grouping of data representations corresponding to the first non-contiguous grouping of time periods of the first insulin basal rate profile further includes the step of receiving a fourth input selecting a group type as a non-contiguous group, the fourth input being received prior to the second input.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the third input corresponds to a fixed offset.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the third input corresponds to a percentage offset.

12. The method of claim 8, further including the step of displaying a representation of an original first height of the first bar segment along with the first adjusted height of the first bar segment and an original second height of the second bar segment along with the second adjusted height of the second bar segment.

13. A method for adjusting data values, including the steps of:

displaying a plurality of data representations in a graphical format on a display of a medical apparatus programming device, each data representation corresponding to a data value of a profile;

receiving a first input corresponding to a selection of a first data representation and a second input, the second input corresponding to one of a contiguous group selection and a non-contiguous group selection;

receiving a third input corresponding to a selection of a second data representation;

defining a contiguous group of data values of the profile corresponding to data representations bounded by the first data representation and the second data representation when the second input corresponds to the contiguous group selection;

defining a non-contiguous group of data values of the profile corresponding to data representations including the first data representation and the second data representation when the second input corresponds to the non-contiguous group selection; and

simultaneously adjusting each of the defined group of data values in response to a received adjustment input without adjusting data representations not part of the defined group of data values.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the profile is a basal rate profile for an insulin pump and the plurality of data values are a plurality of basal rates of insulin to be administered by the insulin pump.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the plurality of data representations are a plurality of bar segments corresponding to the plurality of basal rates of insulin to be administered by the insulin pump.

16. The method of claim 14, further including the steps of:

storing an adjusted basal rate profile including each of the data values of the defined group; and

communicating the adjusted basal rate profile to the insulin pump.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the first input and the third input is received from a pointing device and the second input is received from a keyboard.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the second input corresponding to a contiguous group selection is based on a shift key of the keyboard and the second input corresponding to a non-contiguous group selection is based on a control key of the keyboard.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the simultaneously adjusting step includes the step of receiving inputs from a pointing device resulting from a user clicking on a data representation corresponding to one of the data values in the defined group of data values and altering a position of the data representation.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the simultaneously adjusting step includes the step of changing each of the data values in the defined group by an offset, the offset corresponding to the position of the data representation.

21. The method of claim 13, wherein the simultaneously adjusting step includes the steps of setting each of the data values in the defined group to an equal value and changing each of the data values in the defined group by a fixed amount.

22. The method of claim 13, further including the step of displaying adjusted data representations corresponding to the defined group as a real time visual feedback.

23. The method of claim 13, further including the step of displaying an adjustment field, wherein the simultaneously adjusting step includes the step of receiving an input from a keyboard resulting from a user entering a value in the adjustment field.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the simultaneously adjusting step includes the step of setting each of the data values in the defined group to the entered value.

25. An apparatus for adjusting insulin basal rates for an insulin pump, the apparatus comprising:

a computing device;

a memory accessible by the computing device;

a display operatively coupled to the computing device;

at least one user input device operatively coupled to the computing device; and

software stored on the memory which provides a user interface to display a graphical representation of a first insulin basal profile for the insulin pump including a data representation for a plurality of time periods of the first insulin basal profile and corresponding insulin basal rates for each of the plurality of time periods, the software including means for selecting a non-contiguous group of data representations of a first portion of the plurality of time periods for adjustment and means for simultaneously adjusting the corresponding insulin basal rates for each of the data representations of the first portion of the plurality of time periods without adjusting data representations not part of the first portion of the plurality of time periods.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the software further includes means for selecting a contiguous group of data representations of a second portion of the plurality of time periods for adjustment.

27. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the means for simultaneously adjusting the corresponding insulin basal rates for each of the data representations of the first portion of the plurality of time periods includes means for adjusting the corresponding basal rates for each of the data representations of the first portion of the plurality of time periods by a fixed offset.

28. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the means for simultaneously adjusting the corresponding insulin basal rates for each of the data representations of the first portion of the plurality of time periods includes means for adjusting the corresponding basal rates for each of the data representations of the first portion of the plurality of time periods by a percentage.

29. A computer readable medium tangibly embodying instructions executable by a computing device to perform method steps including:

displaying a graphical representation of a current basal rate profile, the basal rate profile having a plurality of time periods and associated basal rates and the graphical representation including a plurality of data representations corresponding to the plurality of time periods and associated basal rates of the basal rate profile;

permitting the selection of a non-contiguous group of the plurality of data representations; and

simultaneously adjusting a characteristic of the non-contiguous group of the plurality of data representations, without adjusting the characteristic not part of the non-contiguous group, to represent an adjusted basal rate for each of the time periods of the non-contiguous group of the plurality of data representations.

30. The computer readable medium of claim 29, further including instructions to display the current basal rate profile and the adjusted basal rate profile simultaneously.