Patent Document ID: 20140032195
Application ID: 13559552
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for improving glucose management with a glucose meter through modeling of circadian profiles, comprising the steps of: collecting, for each of a plurality of daily meal periods occurring over a recent observational time frame, at least two sets of pre- and post-meal period data into a circadian profile stored on a glucose meter, comprising: reading a level of blood glucose on a test strip provided to the glucose meter by a diabetic patient for one of the daily meal periods; identifying a dosing of diabetes medication, which was dosed during the same daily meal period as the reading of the blood glucose level; and storing the blood glucose level and the diabetes medication dosing into the circadian profile in a record for the daily meal period; and modeling predicted blood glucose for the patient, comprising: creating a model comprising expected blood glucose values and their predicted errors at each daily meal period from the blood glucose levels in each record in the circadian profile and visualizing the model of the expected blood glucose values and their predicted errors in a log-normal distribution; determining target ranges for blood glucose at each meal period and superimposing the target ranges over the expected blood glucose values; and obtaining pharmacodynamics of the diabetes medication; and propagating an incremental change in dosing of the identified diabetes medication over the model day and adjusting the expected blood glucose values and their predicted errors in response to the suggested incremental dosing change, wherein the collecting steps are performed on a suitably-programmed glucose meter and the modeling steps are performed on a suitably-programmed computer.