Patent ID: 8105245

Claim:
An integrated lancing and testing kit for measuring a body analyte level, comprising: a meter for analyzing the analyte to determine the body analyte level; a cartridge containing one or more integrated lancet and testing strips; and wherein the one or more integrated testing strips each comprise: a lancet body including a test strip receiving end and a lancet end; a lancet needle coupled with, protruding from, and fixed relative to the lancet end of the lancet body; a test strip coupled to the test strip receiving end of the lancet body having multiple electrodes and assay chemistry for testing an analyte level of an applied body fluid, wherein the contacts for electrically coupling to the meter are disposed on a surface of the test strip at the test strip receiving end of the lancet body; wherein the test strip and lancet needle are relatively disposed at different ends of the integrated lancet and testing strip for providing both lancing and application of body fluid at a lancing site, the test strip including a sample receiving portion at an end opposite the lancet needle, and wherein the contacts are between the sample receiving portion and the lancet needle; and wherein the integrated lancet and testing strip is configured for lancing and application of body fluid at a lancing site by automatically lancing, withdrawing the integrated lancet and testing strip into the meter, reorienting the integrated lancet and testing strip within the meter, and re-advancing the integrated lancet and testing strip.