Patent ID: 11903698
Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 6:
7. An apparatus for use with a plurality of patients, for use with an insulin delivery system, and for use with one or more blood glucose monitoring devices, the apparatus comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
for each of the plurality of patients, (i) determine a profile of a blood glucose concentration of the patient based, at least in part, on a probability density function of a plurality of blood glucose concentration values collected at the one or more blood glucose monitoring devices, and (ii) determine a metric based, at least in part, on a convolution of a cost or loss function and the profile, wherein the metric is for balancing short-term and long-term risks associated with a therapy, and wherein the metric is representative of a glycemic health of the patient, the cost or loss function being based, at least in part, on a log-square operation and being further based, at least in part, on a parameter selected to balance Spearman rank coefficients with hypoglycemic-based metrics and hyperglycemic-based metrics, wherein the log-square operation is applied to at least one of a computed mean of the plurality of blood glucose concentration values or a measure of a statistical dispersion of the plurality of blood glucose concentration values,
wherein the profiles of the plurality of patients are obtained under multiple predefined therapies, and
wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
rank the multiple predefined therapies based, at least in part, on the metrics; and control the insulin delivery system for balancing hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic tendencies in the plurality of patients, based at least in part on the ranking of the multiple predefined therapies.