US 10,328,204 B2Granted

System and method for providing alerts optimized for a user

AssigneeDexCom, Inc.

InventorsAnna Leigh Davis, Arturo Garcia, Thomas Hall, Hari Hampapuram, Christopher Robert Hannemann, Anna Claire Harley-Trochimczyk, Nathaniel David Heintzman, Andrea J. Jackson, Lauren Hruby Jepson, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Katherine Yerre Koehler, Scott M. Belliveau, Aditya Sagar Mandapaka, Samuel Jere Marsh, Gary A. Morris, Subrai Girish Pai, Andrew Attila Pal, Nicholas Polytaridis, Philip Thomas Pupa, Eli Reihman, Ashley Anne Rindfleisch, Sofie Wells Schunk, Naresh C. Bhavaraju, Peter C. Simpson, Daniel Smith, Stephen J. Vanslyke, Matthew T. Vogel, Tomas C. Walker, Benjamin Elrod West, Atiim Joseph Wiley, Leif N. Bowman, Rita M. Castillo, Alexandra Elena Constantin, Rian Draeger, Laura J. Dunn, Gary Brian Gable

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Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed that provide smart alerts to users, e.g., alerts to users about diabetic states that are only provided when it makes sense to do so, e.g., when the system can predict or estimate that the user is not already cognitively aware of their current condition, e.g., particularly where the current condition is a diabetic state warranting attention. In this way, the alert or alarm is personalized and made particularly effective for that user. Such systems and methods still alert the user when action is necessary, e.g., a bolus or temporary basal rate change, or provide a response to a missed bolus or a need for correction, but do not alert when action is unnecessary, e.g., if the user is already estimated or predicted to be cognitively aware of the diabetic state warranting attention, or if corrective action was already taken.

Claims28

Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising instructions for causing a computing environment to perform a method of dynamically adjusting or tuning user alerts based on a cognitive awareness determination, thereby providing data relevant to treatment of a diabetic state warranting attention, the method comprising steps of:

identifying a current or future diabetic state warranting attention, the identifying based at least partially on a glucose concentration value;
estimating or predicting a cognitive awareness of the user of the identified current or future diabetic state warranting attention;
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if the result of the estimating or predicting is that the user is cognitively unaware of the identified current or future diabetic state warranting attention, then alerting a user with a user prompt on a user interface of a monitoring device, the user prompt indicating the diabetic state warranting attention,
whereby the user is only alerted of the diabetic state warranting attention if and at a time that the user is unaware of the diabetic state warranting attention and that the notification is effective for the user.

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Facts

Application: 15/582,057Filed 28 Apr 2017 · us provisional application
Priority: 2 May 2016
Published: US 2017/0311903 A12 Nov 2017
Granted: 25 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification36 codes

G16H 20/17
Relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients: delivered via infusion or injection
A61B 5/0022
Characterised by features of the telemetry system: monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
A61B 5/024
Detecting, measuring or recording for evaluating the cardiovascular system, e.g. pulse, heart rate, blood pressure or blood flow: measuring pulse…
A61B 5/1112
Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor or mobility of a limb: global tracking of patients, e.g. by using GPS