Patent ID: 8105244

Claim:
An integrated lancet and testing strip for measuring a body analyte level, the strip comprising: 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 the body analyte level of an applied body fluid, wherein the contacts for electrically coupling to a meter are disposed on a surfaced 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 end of the lancet body 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, reorienting and re-advancing the integrated lancet and testing strip.