US 8,285,487 B2 · System and methods for improved diabetes data management and use employing wireless connectivity between patients and healthcare providers and repository of diabetes management information

Abstract

Methods, devices and a system for disease management are provided that employ diagnostic testing devices (e.g., blood glucose meters) and medication delivery devices (e.g., insulin delivery devices) for providing data to a repository in real-time and automatically. Repository data can be analyzed to determine such information as actual test strip use, patient health parameters to outside prescribed ranges, testing and medication delivery compliance, patient profiles or stakeholders to receive promotional items or incentives, and so on. Connected meters and medication delivery devices and repository data analysis are also employed to associate a diagnostic test to a mealtime based on timing of a therapeutic intervention performed by an individual.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method of processing diagnostic data comprising:

receiving diabetes therapy delivery data and corresponding time stamps for when different diabetes therapy delivery events were administered to a patient;
receiving diagnostic diabetes test data and corresponding time stamps for when diagnostic diabetes tests were administered to the patient;
receiving values corresponding to the latest time at which the patient would eat each of at least two meals;
and
analyzing, using the computer, the diabetes therapy delivery data time stamps, the diagnostic diabetes test data time stamps and the values corresponding to meals to determine which of the meals the respective diabetes therapy delivery events are most closely related in time, and to determine whether at least one of the diagnostic diabetes tests is a pre-meal event or a post-meal event based on the time stamp of the diagnostic diabetes test relative to the diabetes therapy delivery data time stamps and their corresponding related meals, and the computer generating an output indicative of the determined one of a pre-meal event or a post-meal event.

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A computer-implemented method of processing diagnostic data comprising:

receiving diabetes therapy delivery data and corresponding time stamps for when different diabetes therapy delivery events were administered to a patient;
receiving diagnostic diabetes test data and corresponding time stamps for when diagnostic diabetes tests were administered to the patient;
receiving a value corresponding to a typical number of meals eaten per day;
and
analyzing by performing cluster analysis, using the computer, of the diabetes therapy delivery data time stamps, the diagnostic diabetes test data time stamps and the number of meals eaten per day to determine how the therapy data time stamps and the diagnostic test data time stamps cluster relative to the number of meals eaten per day for segmenting a day into mealtimes and to determine whether at least one of the diagnostic diabetes tests is a pre-meal event or a post-meal event based on the time stamp of the diagnostic diabetes test relative to the diabetes therapy delivery data time stamps and their corresponding mealtimes indicated via the cluster analysis, and the computer generating an output indicative of the determined one of a pre-meal event or a post-meal event.

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System and methods for improved diabetes data management and use employing wireless connectivity between patients and healthcare providers and repository of diabetes management information

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System and methods for improved diabetes data management and use employing wireless connectivity between patients and healthcare providers and repository of diabetes management information

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