Displaying status of a blood glucose measure being transferred wirelessly from a handheld glucose meter

A handheld glucose meter having an improved user interface for displaying status during transmission of a blood glucose measure, comprising:

• a port configured to receive a test strip having a reaction site for receiving a sample of blood from a patient;
• a glucose measurement module cooperatively operable with a test strip inserted in the port to measure glucose in a sample of blood residing on the test strip;
• a wireless transceiver in data communication with the glucose measurement module and operable to communicate the glucose measure received from the glucose measurement module automatically via a wireless data link to a diabetes management application residing on a portable computing device and being physically separated from the glucose meter;
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• a user interface module in data communication with the glucose measurement module and the wireless transceiver, the user interface module operates to display the glucose measure on a result screen of the glucose meter immediately following the determination of the glucose measure by the glucose measurement module and operates to display an interface on a display of the glucose meter concurrently with the transfer of the glucose measure to the diabetes management application, where the interface provides an indication of a data transfer, a numeric value for the glucose measure and an identifier for the portable computing device,
• wherein the user interface module navigates, in response to an input command, from the result screen to a comment selection screen, the comment selection screen presents a listing of comments for selection;
• and, in response to receiving a comment, navigates from the comment selection screen back to the result screen;
• wherein the wireless transceiver transfers the blood glucose measure and the comment in response to navigating away from the result screen after returning to the result screen once a comment from the selection screen has been chosen.