Patent ID: 8707392

Claim:
A diabetes care manager in data communication with a medical device using a communication protocol, the diabetes care manager comprising: a data store; a processing module executing instructions in the data store; a meter that measures the concentration of glucose in blood; a collection application implemented as computer executable instructions in the data store of the diabetes care manager, the collection application executes a structured collection procedure for obtaining measurement data from the meter and provides access to the measurement data, wherein the structured collection procedure having parameters including a schedule of collection events; a configuration application implemented as computer executable instructions in the data store of the diabetes care manager that accesses and manipulates the parameters of the structured collection procedure using a set of action commands, wherein the set of action commands are defined in compliance with the communication protocol; and a collection interface implemented as computer executable instructions in the data store of the diabetes care manager that receives an action command from the configuration application, executes the received action command and issues a response command in response thereto, wherein the response command is defined in compliance with the communication protocol.