Patent ID: 8849458

Claim:
A portable, handheld collection device for the management of diabetes comprising: a display; a user interface; a measurement engine to measure a biomarker value; a non-transitory memory containing a data file and a structured collection procedure, the structured collection procedure having parameters defining: a schedule of collection events having one or more collection events which provide a request for a measurement of the biomarker value under defined conditions which are related to the biomarker value as contextual information associated with the biomarker value, and a view flag associated with each of the one or more collection events, the view flag having a viewable value and a non-viewable value; a processor connected to the display, the user interface, the measurement engine, and the memory; and a power supply for powering the device; wherein the processor is programmed to: read the structured collection procedure from the memory, permit an authorized user to select at least one criterion under which a data record of the data file for the structured collection procedure is designated as viewable, run the structured collection procedure, send automatically the request of each of the one or more collection events according to the structured collection procedure, store automatically biomarker value(s) measured by the measurement engine or information entered via the user interface in an associated data record of the data file in the memory in response to sent request, store and link automatically contextual information associated with each biomarker value or the information entered in the associated data record of the data file to form contextualized biomarker data, designate automatically the associated data record in the memory containing the contextualized biomarker data as viewable if the view flag associated with the sent request in the structured collection procedure has the viewable value or the at least one criterion is met and as not viewable if the view flag has the non-viewable value or the at least one criterion is not met, and provide to the display only biomarker values associated to data records containing the contextualized biomarker data if the data records are designated in the memory as viewable.