Patent ID: 8211364

Claim:
A PDA-based system for managing treatment of a particular health condition afflicting a patient, the system comprising: a PDA comprising a nonvolatile memory, a display, an input device, a communication port, and a processor; wherein the memory stores a health management application program configured to manage treatment of the particular health condition, the memory also configured to receive, store, and output data entered by the patient; wherein the display is mounted on the PDA and the display is configured to display data entered via the input device; wherein the communication port is configured to transmit data from the PDA; and wherein the processor is connected to the display, the memory, the input device, and the communication port, and wherein the processor is configured to access the memory to upload into the processor and run the health management application program which programs the processor to: control the display to issue a prompt for entry of patient health condition data related to the particular health condition; receive patient health condition data related to the particular health condition from the input device, the patient health condition data including patient physiological data, subjective patient health condition data and medication delivery data; store the received patient health condition data in the memory of the PDA; compile the stored patient health condition data into an accumulated data summary; and transmit the accumulated data summary from the PDA to a second processing unit via the communication port.