A method for operating a device for supporting a patient with a chronic or a non-chronic disease, including a display facility, a user interface, a processor which couples to the display facility and the user interface with respect to data technology, and including an application module having non-transient program instructions which are configured, wherein the method on executing the program instructions by the processor comprises the following steps:
- providing medical protocols for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes,
- collecting time information concerning a future event, which is a trigger for at least one medical protocol,
- selecting one of the medical protocols, which indicates a group of cohesive protocol events which are spaced apart chronologically over a protocol period in accordance with a protocol regime,
- monitoring a chronological interval between a current date and the future event, and
- issuing a user start notice concerning the beginning of the medical protocol at a time which from a chronological point of view lies at least by the protocol period before the future event.