Patent ID: 8273296

Claim:
A system for managing treatment of a particular health condition afflicting a patient, the system comprising: a nonvolatile memory storing a health management application program configured to manage treatment of the particular health condition; a display comprising a touch screen; a communication unit configured to transmit data wirelessly via a mobile phone device; and a processor connected to the display, the memory, and the communication unit, wherein the processor is configured to access the memory to load into the processor and run the health management application program which programs the processor to: control the display to issue a visual prompt for entry of patient health condition data, including subjective patient symptom data, related to the particular health condition in a predefined drop-down list of such symptoms that may be individually selected and entered as data with the touch screen; receive patient health condition data, including analyte level data with associated times at which the data was taken from a patient, and further including subjective patient symptom data with associated times at which the symptoms were experienced related to the particular health condition via the touch screen selected from the pre-defined drop-down list; store the received patient health condition data in the memory along with the times associated with each of the data; compile the stored patient health condition data into a data summary in which analyte levels at specific times are associated with subjective patient symptom data at the same times so that the summary shows an overall view of possible influences of subjective patient symptoms on analyte levels; and transmit the data summary via the communication unit.