Promoting and Publicizing that Rewarding Increased Compliance Improves Blood Glucose Control and Outcomes

A process of recruiting new diabetic patients into a program where patient blood glucose, diet and exercise are monitored, where patients in the program are provided with reward test strips, which entitle the patient to a discount, rebate, free test strips or other benefit, comprising:

• testing for the patients' blood glucose level using test strips which are read by a device carried by the patient;
• determining patients' exertion level by using the device to measure patients' movement or acceleration;
• providing a recommended diet and exercise regimen for patients in the program to follow for a particular forthcoming period;
• querying the patients about prior food consumption and time of food consumption;
• providing an interactive link between a server and the device, and analyzing the patients' blood glucose level, exertion level and query responses and where based on said analysis, the patients are sent advisory messages about future food consumption and timing of food consumption, about timing of further testing, and, if the patients are engaging in exertion at the time the advisory message is sent, about continuing or ceasing exertion;
• providing test strips to the patients which include encoded reward test strips;
• monitoring whether patients' compliance with the recommended diet and exercise regimen increases or decreases compared to a prior period where no reward test strips were provided, based on monitoring of the patients' responses to the queries;
• determining whether during the monitored period, the patients receiving reward test strips had improved clinical outcomes for cardiovascular disease, cataracts, non-healing wounds, tissue necrosis and amputation compared with patients not receiving reward test strips;
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• publicizing any improved patient clinical outcomes associated with the patients provided reward test strips, in order to recruit more patients into the program.