Patent ID: 8529841

Claim:
A method for managing treatment of a particular health condition afflicting a patient through the use of a mobile phone device, the method comprising: storing in a nonvolatile memory of a mobile phone device a health management application program configured to manage treatment of the particular health condition; accessing the nonvolatile memory to upload into a processor of the mobile phone device and run the health management application program; and programming the processor with the uploaded health management application program for: controlling a display mounted on the mobile phone device to issue a prompt for entry of patient health condition data, including subjective patient symptom data, related to the particular health condition in a predefined drop-down list of such symptoms that may be individually selected and entered as data; receiving patient health condition data, including analyte level data with associated times at which the data was taken from a patient and further including subjective patient symptom data with associated times at which the symptoms were experienced, related to the particular health condition from an input device; storing the received patient health condition data along with times associated with the data in the nonvolatile memory of the mobile phone device; compiling the stored patient health condition data into an accumulated data summary in which analyte levels at specific times are associated with subjective patient symptom data at the same times so that the summary shows an overall view of possible influences of subjective patient symptoms on analyte levels; and transmitting the accumulated data summary from the mobile phone device to a second processing unit via a communication port of the mobile phone device.