Patent ID: 8494607

Claim:
A handheld diabetes management device having a database management system comprising: a blood glucose reader that receives a fluid sample from a patient and that outputs a blood glucose measurement that is used to generate a first record having a first record type; a user interface that receives input from the patient via an input device associated with the handheld diabetes management device and that outputs patient data that is used to generate a second record having a second record type; a communication interface that receives data from an external device and that outputs device data that is used to generate a third record having a third record type, wherein the first record type, the second record type, and the third record type are ones of a plurality of different record types, wherein each record type of the plurality of different record types has a corresponding frequency, wherein the frequency of a record type indicates an average amount of records having the record type received during a predetermined period of time; N databases each having a different frequency range associated thereto, wherein a new record of a particular record type based on data received from one of the blood glucose reader, the user interface, and the communication interface is stored in a particular database of the N databases based on the frequency range of the particular database and the frequency of the particular record type, and wherein N is an integer greater than 1; and a database operation module that performs database operations on the N databases.