| 摘要 |
An interactive diabetes monitoring and advice system includes a patient glucometer device with a wireless link to a server which can provide messages to the patient, such as advice and educational messages. The messages are associated such that selection of certain advisory messages or blood glucose levels, or exertion levels, leads to sending of certain educational or other messages, while certain other educational or other messages are not sent, or not sent for a specified period. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method of increasing diabetic patient compliance with a recommended regime of diet, exercise, health-related checking or chemical indicator testing, wherein the patient is in an interactive system in which a glucometer carried by the patient communicates to a server which sends back messages from a message bank (containing at least 100 educational messages and at least 100 advisory messages) to the patient, and wherein advisory messages advise the patient to do one or more of: test for chemical or biochemical indicators, take action with respect to eating or exercising, and initiate a health-related check, and wherein educational messages advise the user of health risks and benefits based on test results or health-related check results or of the risks and benefits of action or inaction but do not recommend any action, the method comprising:
placing all messages in a messages bank; associating certain advisory messages each with a different patient blood glucose level, so that when particular levels are received particular advisory messages are sent; associating certain educational messages in the bank each with either a different patient blood glucose level or a different advisory message and wherein one or more of the following rules are applied: (i) when a first particular patient blood glucose level is received a first particular educational message is also sent within a designated period and also sent a number of times thereafter at a specified frequency, or, (ii) when a first particular advisory message is sent [a] the first particular educational message or another educational message is also sent within a designated period and also sent a number of times thereafter at a specified frequency, and (iii) when the first particular patient blood glucose level is received a second particular advisory message is not sent for at least a designated period, or (iv) when the first particular advisory message is sent a second particular educational message is not sent for at least a designated period; providing the patient access to the system and receiving at the server blood glucose levels from the patient's glucometer and sending advisory and educational messages to the patient in accordance with rules (i) to (iv) above. |
