Patent ID: 8257652

Claim:
A system for managing treatment of a particular health condition afflicting a patient, the system comprising: a patient local processing device comprising a processor, an input device and a nonvolatile memory, the memory storing a health management program configured to manage treatment of the particular health condition, the memory also configured to store data entered by the patient; a display unit connected to the patient local processing device, the display unit configured to display data entered on the input device; and a communication unit configured to transmit data from the patient local processing device; wherein the processor is 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 program which programs the processor to: control the display unit to issue a prompt for entry of patient health condition data related to the particular health condition, wherein the patient health condition data includes subjective patient symptom data in a predefined drop-down list of subjective patient symptoms that may be individually selected and entered as data with the input device, and medication delivery data, and to issue a prompt reminding the patient of a planned activity; receive patient health condition data related to the particular health condition, 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 from the predefined drop-down list; store the received patient health condition data in the memory of the patient local processing device along with the times associated with the data; compile the stored patient health condition data into a data summary of accumulated data in which analyte levels at specific times are associated with subjective patient symptom data at specific times so that the summary shows an overall view of possible influences of subjective patient symptoms on analyte levels; and present on the display a graphical representation of the data summary of the accumulated data.