Patent ID: 7824612

Claim:
A method for programming a bodily fluid analyzer, comprising: selecting by a prescribing physician or a drug company at least one threshold value of at least one analyte to be sensed by the bodily fluid analyzer, the at least one threshold value of the at least one analyte being associated with a particular drug being or to be taken by the patient or course of treatment for the patient providing a data storage unit separately from the bodily fluid analyzer and containing stored information including the at least one threshold value of at least one analyte to be sensed by the bodily fluid analyzer selected by the prescribing physician or the drug company; reading the stored information stored on the data storage unit into a data reader associated with a bodily fluid analyzer; setting the bodily fluid analyzer with the at least one threshold value for the at least one analyte to be sensed by the bodily fluid analyzer with the information read by the data reader from the data storage unit, wherein the at least one threshold value is a value such that a sensed analyte level beyond the value will cause the display to display an alert; sensing the analyte level; and displaying an alert if the sensed analyte level is beyond the threshold value.