Method of operating a medical device and at least a remote controller for such medical device

• US 8,449,523 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2007
• Issued: 05/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LifeScan IP Holdings, LLC
• Original Assignee: Animas Corporation (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Brukalo, Krzysztof Z., Ebner, Manfred, Getz, Steven, Hohl, David, Brewer, Carl, Kraft, Ulrich, DeStefano, Mark, Hasenzahl, Sieghard
• Primary Examiner(s): Bouchelle, Laura A
• Assistant Examiner(s): MATNEY, BROOKE MARIE
• Application Number:
  US11/764,049
• Publication Number:
  US 20080312585A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,174 Days
• Field of Search: 604/67, 604/65, 604/66, 604/504, 600/301, 600/523
• US Class Current: 604/504
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6018 providing set-up signals for the apparatus configuration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/01 Remote controllers for specific apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/201 Glucose concentration
• 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: G08C 17/00 Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A disease management system, methods, and devices are shown and described. In one embodiment, the system includes an infusion pump and a remote controller with the ability to be paired to each other. A method to verify a wireless connection between an infusion pump and a remote controller is shown and described herein. In a further embodiment, a method to verify a wireless connection between an infusion pump and a remote controller is provided. In addition, a method of operating a diabetes management system is provided in which the system includes an infusion pump and at least a remote controller.

Claims

1. A method of operating a diabetes management system including an infusion pump and at least a remote controller, the method comprising:

providing a remote controller having a blood glucose measurement unit configured to store a plurality of measurements in a memory unit, the remote controller having a housing, display, and identification information unique to the remote controller affixed to the housing of the remote controller, the identification information being unique to the remote controller and no other remote controller or pump;

providing an infusion pump configured for bidirectional communication with the remote controller, the pump having a pump housing, display, and identification information unique to the pump affixed to the housing of the pump, the identification information being unique to the pump and no other pump or remote controller;

exchanging the identification information unique to the remote controller to the infusion pump and the identification information unique to the infusion pump to the remote controller;

displaying the identification information of the remote on the display of the pump and identification information of the pump on the display of the remote;

permitting control of the infusion pump by the remote controller upon (a) acceptance of the unique identification information specific to the remote controller in the infusion pump and (b) acceptance of the unique identification information specific to the infusion pump in the remote controller; and

checking a unit of glucose measurement in the remote controller with a unit of blood glucose measurement in the infusion pump, wherein if the unit of blood glucose measurement for the remote controller is the same as the unit of blood glucose measurement for the infusion pump then displaying information relating to blood glucose measurements stored in the remote controller in a graphical format on a display screen of at least one of the remote controller and the infusion pump, otherwise if the unit of blood glucose measurement in the remote controller is not the same as the unit of blood glucose measurement in the infusion pump then aborting the control of the infusion pump by the remote controller.

2. The method of claim 1, in which the information relating to blood glucose measurements comprises a graph of all glucose measurement results stored in at least one of the remote controller and pump.

3. The method of claim 1, in which the information relating to blood glucose measurements comprises a graph of blood glucose measurement results as indexed by time of day.

4. The method of claim 1, in which the information relating to blood glucose measurements comprises a graph of blood glucose measurements and insulin doses stored on at least one of the remote controller and infusion pump.

5. The method of claim 1, in which the information relating to blood glucose measurements comprises an average of at least one of blood glucose measurements and insulin doses.

6. The method of claim 1, in which the information relating to blood glucose measurements comprises an average of at least one of blood glucose measurements and insulin doses indexed by time of day.

7. The method of claim 1, in which the information relating to blood glucose measurements comprises an average of at least one of blood glucose measurements and insulin doses indexed by exercise events.