System and method for managing administration of insulin to a user

A method of managing administration of insulin to a user, the method comprising:

• providing a system for continuously monitoring the user's glucose level comprising:
• a glucose monitor for continuously monitoring and determining the user's glucose level;
• a user interface device operating a user interface application for displaying representations of user intake items;
• a database storing a catalog of input items for display on the user interface application and information with a pre-established relationship between each of a plurality of the intake items and a parameter that is related thereto and usable to determine an appropriate change in insulin delivery based upon consumption by the user of each of the plurality of intake items;
• an infusion pump configured to effect a controlled delivery of insulin from a source to the user;
• and
• a programmed processing system operatively associated with the glucose monitor, the user interface device, the database and the infusion pump and programmed with a baseline insulin delivery program for the user based upon continuously determined glucose levels;
• the programmed processing system being programmed to automatically make a calculation of insulin to be delivered to the user according to the baseline insulin delivery program or make the calculation of insulin to be delivered to the user according to a modified baseline insulin delivery program generated in response to user input data;
• and
• the programmed processing system being programmed to allow the user to provide an input using the user interface application to selectively identify representations of any of the plurality of intake items as an incident of which the related parameters are communicated from the database for processing by the processing system to modify the baseline delivery program and communicate an input to the infusion pump correlated to the modified baseline insulin delivery program to effect insulin delivery in a manner consistent with the modified baseline insulin delivery program,
• whereby as an incident of the user inputting an identification of one or more of the intake items using the user interface application, the system is programmed to automatically effect delivery of insulin to the user according to the modified baseline delivery program, instead of the baseline insulin delivery program, determined by the user's consumption of the one or more of the plurality of intake items based upon the pre-established relationship in the database of the inputted identification of the one or more of the intake items and the parameter.