	US 7,570,980 B2
	Apparatus and method for monitoring blood glucose levels including convenient display of blood glucose value average and constituent values
Barry H. Ginsberg, Wyckoff, N.J. (US)
Assigned to Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, N.J. (US)
Filed on Sep. 10, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/658,209.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/409965, filed on Sep. 11, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2004/0059201 A1, Mar. 25, 2004
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 600—347 [600/365]

28 Claims

1. A method of annunciating a patient's medical data levels using a medical data level monitoring device comprising the steps of:

storing medical data levels with the corresponding dates and times of day the respective medical data levels were taken;

calculating using a processing device an average medical data level from at least

a first medical data level and a second medical data level selected from the stored medical data levels;

annunciating said average medical data level;

receiving a first user input to annunciate said first medical data level;

annunciating said first medical data level;

receiving a second user input to annunciate said second medical data level; and

annunciating said second medical data level;

wherein said calculating step further comprises the steps of

selecting the stored medical data levels used to determine said average medical data level based on the date and time of day the stored medical data levels were taken;

defining a time period during a day when the average medical data level is desired for that time period on each of a selected number of days;

receiving a user input requesting an average medical data level of said time period for a selected number of days beginning with the current day;

determining if said time period has been entered or passed on said current day;

using a reading of an medical data level taken during the time period for said current day when determining said average medical data level if said time period has been entered or has passed for the current day; and

selecting a stored medical data level taken on the previous day when determining said average medical data level if said time period has yet not been entered or passed for the current day.