System and method for managing health data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9618967-B2
Application number	US-12954708-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 29, 2008
Priority date	May 30, 2007
Publication date	Apr 11, 2017
Grant date	Apr 11, 2017

Abstract

A portable data-management system may be easily employed with multiple processing devices by eliminating the need to pre-install additional programs, agents, device drivers, or other software components on the hosts. A portable storage device contains software for a data-management application, which receives and processes test data from a meter that measures an analyte. The portable device may employ an interface protocol that makes the portable device immediately compatible with different operating systems and hardware configurations. Once the portable device is connected to the host, the data-management application can be automatically launched. The convenience and portability of a data-management system may be enhanced by integrating advanced data processing and display features with the portable device. The users may access some advanced presentations of health data without having to launch the data-management application on a separate host.

First claim

What we claim is:

1. A system for securing health data, comprising:
a blood glucose meter including:
a housing having a port configured to receive a test sensor therein;
a measurement system disposed within the housing, the measurement system being configured to be coupled with the test sensor received in the port of the housing, the measurement system including at least one processor that executes program instructions to determine a glucose concentration measurement of a blood sample received by the test sensor;
a data storage system disposed within the housing, the data storage system including a first memory device storing a data-management application and a second memory device storing health data, the health data including glucose concentration measurements determined by the at least one processor of the measurement system, the second memory device being separate from the first memory device;
a data communications interface; and
a user interface operable to display at least a portion of the stored glucose concentration measurements; and

a processing device configured to establish data communications with the blood glucose meter via the data communications interface; and
wherein, in response to establishment of the data communications between the blood glucose meter and the processing device, the processing device (i) reads the data-management application from the first memory device and the health data from the second memory device, (ii) processes the health data by executing the data-management application, and (iii) displays the processed health data on a display of the processing device, the displayed processed health data being different than the glucose concentration measurements displayed on the user interface of the blood glucose meter,
wherein the processing device is configured to execute one or more other applications, and wherein the blood glucose meter is configured to prevent the one or more other applications executing on the processing device from accessing the health data,
wherein the processing device does not store any component of the data-management application before data communications are established between the blood glucose meter and the processing device,
wherein the processing device processes the health data from the second memory without permanently storing the health data on the processing device, and
wherein the data-management application includes a termination component configured to delete any of the health data transferred to the processing device.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second memory device is at least one of a universal serial bus (USB) flash drive and a memory card.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the data storage system is configured according to a memory map indicating security levels for areas of memory in the data storage system, the security levels determining access to data stored in the areas of memory.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first memory device is an EEPROM and the second memory device is a flash memory.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the blood glucose meter includes a data-check system configured to validate the data-management application stored in the data storage system.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processing device removes any data associated with the data-management application from a memory of the processing device before ending execution of the data-management application.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processing device ends the processing and display of the health data on the display of the processing device when the data communications between the data storage system and the processing device are terminated.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processing device is compatible with an interface protocol configuration of the blood glucose meter, the interface protocol configuration allowing data communication to be established between the blood glucose meter and the processing device, and in response to establishment of the data communications between the blood glucose meter and the processing device, the blood glucose meter is reconfigured from the interface protocol configuration to a software configuration allowing the processing device to read the data-management application and the health data from the data storage system, the software configuration being different from the interface protocol configuration.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the interface protocol configuration is a universal serial bus (USB) mass portable device (MSD) configuration.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the data communications interface includes at least one of a universal serial bus (USB) interface, a secure digital (SD) interface, and a radio frequency (RF) link.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processing device is a personal computer, a personal digital assistant, or a smart cellular phone.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the data communications interface further provides data communications between the blood glucose meter and a printer, and wherein (i) the blood glucose meter provides a ready-to-print file from the health data and sends the ready to print file to the printer, or (ii) the printer receives, formats, and prints the health data from the data storage system.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the health data further includes temperature data, blood pressure data, heart rate data, breathing data or weight data.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processing device is one of a plurality of types of processing devices that are compatible with the data communications interface.

15. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a second processing device, wherein additional features of the data-management application are enabled when the blood glucose meter detects it is connected to the second processing device as compared to the processing device.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the additional features include a download of all health data in the data storage system to the second processing device or a launching of a master version of the data-management application.

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein a security component controls access by the processing device to the health data in the data storage system.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein the security component prompts a user for authentication information and validates the authentication information when the processing device attempts to access the health data.

19. The system of claim 17 , wherein the security component establishes a trusted system by requiring the processing device to be registered with the blood glucose meter.

20. The system of claim 19 , wherein the processing device requires the blood glucose meter to be registered and a two-way authentication is established.

21. The system of claim 17 , wherein the security component encrypts the health data on the data storage system.

22. The system of claim 17 , wherein the security component only permits the data-management application access to the health data.

23. The system of claim 17 , wherein the health data is encrypted and the data-management application is required to decrypt the data.

24. A system for securing health data, comprising:
a blood glucose meter including:
a housing having a port configured to receive a test sensor therein;
a measurement system disposed within the housing, the measurement system being configured to be coupled with the test sensor received in t

Assignees

• Brown Darren
• Chen Jun
• Gofman Igor
• Harris Steven B
• Inman Paul L
• Kates Richard
• Li Qiong
• Lieber Harris
• Ripley Paul M
• Stefkovic Gregory
• Sun Hoi-Cheong Steve
• Wu Mu
• Yao Raymond
• Yao Simin
• Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings Ag

Inventors

• Brown Darren
• Chen Jun
• Gofman Igor
• Harris Steven B
• Inman Paul L
• Kates Richard
• Li Qiong
• Lieber Harris
• Ripley Paul M
• Stefkovic Gregory
• Sun Hoi-Cheong Steve
• Wu Mu
• Yao Raymond
• Yao Simin

Classifications

• A61B5/14532 Primary

  for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement · CPC title

• H04L69/329

  in the application layer [OSI layer 7] · CPC title

• G06Q30/02

  Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising · CPC title

• G06F16/22

  Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures · CPC title

• G16H40/63

  for local operation · CPC title