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20100064243 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANIPULATING GROUPS OF DATA REPRESENTATIONS OF A GRAPHICAL DISPLAY - A system is disclosed wherein a graphical representation of a profile may be adjusted to adjust one or more values of the profile. The profile may includes data values corresponding to respective time periods. The data values being represented by data representations in the graphical representation. A non-contiguous grouping of the data representations may be selected by an operator to adjust the data values of the profile corresponding to the non-contiguous grouping of data representations. A contiguous grouping of the data representations may be selected by an operator to adjust the data values of the profile corresponding to the non-contiguous grouping of data representations. | 03-11-2010 |
20100077198 | INSULIN PUMP PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE FOR SELECTIVELY MODIFYING CONFIGURATION DATA - Insulin pump programming software is disclosed that permits selectively modifying insulin pump configuration files. The software facilitates retrieving a source file consisting of a configuration file or portion thereof from a source location. The source file may include general configuration data and insulin delivery data. Once retrieved, the source file may be edited, then the entire source file or a portion thereof may be saved to a target configuration file at one or more target locations. Only the portion of the target configuration file corresponding to the saved source file or portion thereof is replaced by the source file. | 03-25-2010 |
20100324932 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADVISING PEOPLE WITH DIABETES - A method and system for advising a person with diabetes to perform a task based on the recommended therapy are disclosed. A library of one or more tasks is established, wherein each task in the library is related to a therapy recommended to the person with diabetes. Personal and real-time data related to the person's diabetic condition are recorded such that advice provided to the person to perform a task from the library is based on the recorded personal and real-time data. In this manner, the embodiments of the present invention simplify the ability of a person with diabetes to follow a recommended therapy. | 12-23-2010 |
20110145747 | Structured Tailoring - Embodiments related to a self-administered, behavior modification program facilitated through a structured tailoring method and system thereof which accelerates and enhances the internalization process of the individual, and which provides help when the individual begins to fail in adhering or continuing with the behavior modification are disclosed. Program instructions that when executed by a processor causes a processor to initiate automatically a schedule of events of a structured tailoring procedure upon entry criteria being met at some unknown time, provide intervention according to the intervention preferences when the adherence criteria for one of the events has not been met, and end automatically the structured collection procedure upon exit criteria being met at some unknown time. | 06-16-2011 |
20110178820 | Status Reporting Of A Structured Collection Procedure - Embodiments related to a system and method managing the implementation, execution, data collection, data analysis and status reporting of a structured collection procedure running on a portable, hand-held collection device are disclosed. The collection device performing the structured collection procedure has program instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to initiate automatically a schedule of events of the structured collection procedure upon one or more entry criteria being met at some unknown time, store in memory patient data collected in accordance to the schedule of events, end automatically the structured collection procedure upon one or more exit criteria being met at some unknown time. Status reporting can be provided throughout the execution of the collection procedure. | 07-21-2011 |
20110196213 | Display For Biological Values - Methods for providing an estimated or predicted biological values in a sectioned display to assess the relative impact of a set of variables include collecting biological measurements, grouping the biological measurements based on the set of variables, evaluating the biological measurements to determine grouped estimated biological values or grouped predicted biological values, and providing the grouped estimated biological values or grouped predicted biological values within a plurality of sections in the sectioned display, wherein the plurality of sections correspond to the set of variables. | 08-11-2011 |
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20100076784 | PATIENT DIABETES DATA INTERCHANGE WITH ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS - A system and method for transferring patient diabetes information into an electronic medical record on a health record system with user validation are disclosed. After testing a patient's blood glucose levels over a period of time with a blood glucose meter which stores the patient diabetes information and the blood glucose levels in a first electronic format record, and after a user transfers the first electronic format record from the blood glucose meter into a diabetes management system on a computer, the invention provides a service which automatically monitors an output folder to determine when an export file containing the patient diabetes information is stored therein and after detection, automatically processes the export file into a default electronic medical report which can be copied into a clipboard utility provided by the computer and pasted into the electronic medical record of the patient on the health record system. | 03-25-2010 |
20110092788 | Systems And Methods For Providing Guidance In Administration Of A Medicine - A method of providing guidance using a portable hand-held electronic device in administration of a medicine by a patient is provided. The method includes acquiring image data of a first container of a first medicine prescribed to the patient and acquiring image data of a second container of a second medicine prescribed to the patient. The second container is different visually from the first container. The image data of the first container and the second container is stored in memory of the electronic device. On the portable hand-held electronic device, an instruction is processed to administer at least one of the first medicine and the second medicine to the patient. The stored image data is retrieved from memory corresponding to the at least one of the first medicine and the second medicine to be administered in the instruction. The retrieved image data is displayed on a display of the electronic device. | 04-21-2011 |
20120088989 | Management Method And System For Implementation, Execution, Data Collection, and Data Analysis of A Structured Collection Procedure Which Runs On A Collection Device - In one embodiment, a method of performing a structured collection protocol by utilizing a collection device comprising a processor may include collecting at least one sample using the collection device. The at least one sample can be associated with biomarker data. A classification can be associated with the at least one sample via the processor. The classification can be based upon an intended use of the at least one sample. Compliance with an adherence criteria for the at least one sample can be determined via the processor. When the at least one sample is not compliant with the adherence criteria, an adherence event can be associated with the at least one sample, and the processor can perform at least one additional task that is based upon the classification associated with the at least one sample. | 04-12-2012 |
20120095318 | HANDHELD DIABETES MANAGEMENT DEVICE WITH BOLUS CALCULATOR - A method for monitoring blood glucose (bG) levels of a diabetic user. The method may be implemented on a non-transitory computer readable medium adapted to run on a processing subsystem, the processing subsystem forming a portion of a handheld diabetes management device for monitoring the bG levels of a diabetic user and determining a correction bolus to be provided to the user. The method may comprise using a memory to store information in a plurality of different time blocks. The information may include a plurality of differing user defined health events that each include a predetermined associated percentage value set by the user by which a correction bolus calculation will be modified to account for one of an increase or a decrease in insulin associated with each one of the defined health events. The processing subsystem may be used to communicate with the memory and to obtain the information and to calculate therefrom the correction bolus. | 04-19-2012 |
20120286953 | DYNAMIC DATA COLLECTION - Embodiments of methods of performing a structured collection protocol on a collection device comprise providing a plurality of prior biomarker sample, wherein the prior biomarker samples comprise at least one measured value and plurality of contextualized data components linked to the prior biomarker samples, setting a first criterion, wherein the first criterion classifies prior biomarker samples as similar if prior biomarker samples share at least one identical contextualized data component, grouping biomarker samples that are determined to be similar based on the first criterion, calculating expected values for future biomarker samples which satisfy the first criterion, wherein the calculation is based on at least a subset of the group of similar prior biomarker samples, setting a second criterion, wherein the second criterion is an acceptable variance from the calculated expected values, a threshold, or both, collecting one or more biomarker samples which satisfy the first criterion, and evaluating via the processor the compliance of the collected biomarker samples with the second criterion. | 11-15-2012 |
20120289803 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING UNACCEPTABLE VALUES IN STRUCTURED COLLECTION PROTOCOLS - Embodiments of methods of querying a diabetic patient regarding compliance with adherence criteria comprises instructing the diabetic patient to collect at least one sample in a sampling set of biomarker data, wherein each sampling set comprises a sufficient plurality of samples recorded over a collection period, comparing the collected samples to an acceptable range, wherein the acceptable range encompasses biomarker values that would be expected upon compliance with the adherence criteria, and informing the diabetic patient if at least one sample is an unacceptable value which falls outside of the acceptable range, and performing at least one additional task after detecting the unacceptable value. | 11-15-2012 |
20130212381 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUTHORIZED ACCESS TO A STRUCTURED TESTING PROCEDURE ON A MEDICAL DEVICE - Methods and systems for authorizing access to a medical device are disclosed. The methods and systems use authorization certificates to allow and prevent access to one or more operations of the medical device. The methods and systems also allow the tracking of changes made to the medical device by an authorized user. | 08-15-2013 |
20140058237 | HANDHELD DIABETES MANAGEMENT DEVICE WITH BOLUS CALCULATOR - According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a device and method for determining an allowable amount of blood glucose (bG) of a patient is disclosed. The method further includes receiving a current bG measurement, determining a target bG value, and determining a correction delta bG value based on one or more advice history records. The method includes determining a correction meal rise value and determining a maximum allowed bG value based on the target bG value, the correction delta bG value, and the correction meal rise value. The method includes setting the allowable amount of bG value equal to the maximum allowed bG value when the current bG measurement is greater than the target bG value and determining the allowable amount of bG value using the target bG value and the correction delta bG value when the current bG measurement is less than the target bG value. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058749 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR A HANDHELD DIABETES MANAGEMENT DEVICE WITH BOLUS CALCULATOR - According to some aspects of the present disclosure a method for presenting a GUI for modifying medical data on a handheld medical device is disclosed. The method includes determining a correction bolus amount and a meal bolus amount for the patient. The method also includes presenting the GUI on a display of the medical device and presenting the correction bolus amount, the meal bolus amount and a total bolus amount in the GUI. The method also includes presenting a correction bolus amount modification field and a meal bolus amount field in the GUI. The correction bolus amount modification field and the meal bolus amount modification field allow the patient to provide input to modify the correction bolus amount and meal bolus amount, respectively. The method further includes receiving the input and generating an advice history record based on the input. | 02-27-2014 |
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20140058205 | Methods, Systems, and Devices for Surgical Access and Insertion - The various embodiments herein relate to systems, devices, and/or methods relating to surgical procedures, and more specifically for accessing an insufflated cavity of a patient and/or positioning surgical systems or devices into the cavity. | 02-27-2014 |
20140371762 | Methods, Systems, and Devices Relating to Force Control Surgical Systems - The various embodiments herein relate to robotic surgical systems and devices that use force and/or torque sensors to measure forces applied at various components of the system or device. Certain implementations include robotic surgical devices having one or more force/torque sensors that detect or measure one or more forces applied at or on one or more arms. Other embodiments relate to systems having a robotic surgical device that has one or more sensors and an external controller that has one or more motors such that the sensors transmit information that is used at the controller to actuate the motors to provide haptic feedback to a user. | 12-18-2014 |
20150190170 | Methods, Systems and Devices for Surgical Access and Insertion - The various embodiments herein relate to systems, devices, and/or methods relating to surgical procedures, and more specifically for accessing an insufflated cavity of a patient and/or positioning surgical systems or devices into the cavity. | 07-09-2015 |