Patent ID: 8529838

Claim:
A method for managing treatment of a particular health condition afflicting a patient through the use of a PDA, the method comprising: storing in a nonvolatile memory of a PDA a health management application program configured to manage treatment of the particular health condition; accessing the nonvolatile memory to upload into a processor of the PDA and run the health management application program; and programming the processor with the uploaded health management application program for: controlling a display mounted on the PDA to issue a prompt for entry of patient health condition data related to the particular health condition; receiving patient health condition data related to the particular health condition from an input device, the patient health condition data including patient physiological data, subjective patient health condition data, and medication delivery data; storing the received patient health condition data in the nonvolatile memory of the PDA; compiling the stored patient health condition data into an accumulated data summary; and transmitting the accumulated data summary from the PDA to a second processing unit via a communication port of the PDA.