Medication Dose Guidance Using Automated Glucose Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals with diabetes often fail to monitor their glucose levels frequently due to inconvenience, pain, and cost, leading to inadequate medication dose management, which can result in complications.
Innovation Solution
A dose guidance system comprising a display device, sensor control device, and medication delivery device, which provides intuitive and user-friendly medication dose guidance based on physiological data, historical dosing patterns, and real-time adjustments to minimize hypoglycemic episodes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If glucose monitoring frequency is increased to improve glycemic control, then medication dose accuracy is improved, but patient convenience and compliance deteriorate due to pain, inconvenience, and cost
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automatic glucose monitoring where the sensor control device and dose guidance application autonomously collect glucose data, process it through algorithms considering physiology and behavior, and generate medication dosing recommendations without requiring manual patient intervention for each measurement or calculation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical glucose testing procedures with an automated electronic system that continuously monitors glucose levels through a sensor, eliminating the need for frequent manual finger-stick tests and manual dose calculation by healthcare providers
2Device complexity
If manual medication dosing is used to simplify the system, then device complexity is reduced, but medication dose accuracy and reliability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where glucose monitoring data is automatically fed into the dose guidance application, which adjusts medication dosing recommendations based on real-time glucose levels, patient physiology, diet, and behavior patterns, ensuring accurate and reliable dosing
Solution Approach 2:
The dose guidance application serves multiple functions: it processes glucose data, considers physiological and behavioral factors, generates dosing recommendations, and can control medication delivery, consolidating what would otherwise require separate manual processes into a single intelligent system
3Reliability
If automated medication delivery is implemented to improve dosing accuracy, then medication dose reliability is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the glucose monitoring function, data processing capability, dosing recommendation engine, and medication delivery control into an integrated closed-loop system, where the sensor control device, dose guidance application, and medication delivery device work together as a unified automated system
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, devices and methods are provided for determining a medication dose for a patient or user. The dose determination can account for recent and/or historical analyte levels of the patient or user. The dose determination can also take into account other information about the patient or user, such as physiological information, dietary information, activity, and/or behavior. Many different dose determination embodiments are set forth, pertaining to a wide array of different aspects of the system or environment in which the embodiments can be implemented.