Patent ID: 8635054

Claim:
A method for determining a future disease control value comprising the steps of: (a) interactively receiving from a patient a patient self care value corresponding to a current one of a plurality of times; (b) storing (i) a plurality of optimal disease control values at said times, (ii) a plurality of actual self care values performed by said patient at said times, (iii) a plurality of measured disease control values at said times, (iv) a plurality of optimal self care values at said times, (v) a plurality of scaling factors and (vi) said patient self care value; (c) calculating with a microprocessor said future disease control value based on (i) a plurality of differentials, one of said differentials calculated as one of said scaling factors multiplied by differences between said patient self care value and one of said optimal self care values, (ii) a sum of said differentials plus (iii) a difference between one of said measured disease values and a corresponding one of said optimal disease values; (d) interactively receiving from said patient a new one of said actual self care values at said current time; and (e) adjusting said scaling factors to said patient in response to at least one of (i) differences between said measured disease control values and said optimal disease control values at one or more of said times and (ii) a difference between said new actual self care value and one of said optimum self care values corresponding to said current time.