Introduction

Quick Start Guide

Detailed Functionality

Introduction

Are you pre-diabetic or do you suffer from Diabetes?

Nearly 24 million Americans suffer from diabetes. The number of new diabetes cases is expected to double by 2050. Diabetes is a group of diseases marked by high levels of blood glucose. It can result from defects in insulin production, insulin action, or both. Diabetes can lead to serious complications, such as blindness, kidney damage, cardiovascular disease, lower-limb amputations and premature death. People with diabetes can take steps to control the disease and lower the risk of complications.

Your normal daily glucose level range can vary, so any single blood glucose level is not conclusive. BGL readings must be taken at different times of the day to determine the average blood glucose levels over time. Your blood glucose is influenced by the time of day.

Your blood glucose level is influenced by many factors. What time of day? What foods have you eaten recently? Were you relaxed that day, when you are usually much more stressed? Have you recently exercised? You must check daily, especially if you show "borderline" readings. Use your Glucose Diary so that you come to know your own body, and the effects of exercise, weight, food, and time of day on your blood glucose level.

Your Glucose Diary

If you have diabetes or are pre-diabetic, one of the most helpful tools for you and your doctors is your Blood Glucose Level data.  Most doctors surveyed felt that the best way to improve a consultation would be for a patient to keep track of their symptoms and glucose levels.  Keeping a record of your daily readings in your diary can be a great way of determining the true impact of diabetes on your life.  It is useful to keep track of any medications, insulin taken, glucose level, foods eaten, lab tests and your levels.   Even if you don’t see a doctor on a regular basis for your glucose levels, keeping a log of all the items mentioned above will help you manage your glucose levels better.  If you do see a doctor, email details from your Glucose Diary directly to your doctor before your consultation.

If you are just starting to investigate your levels, you may want to track everything that may be causing your high or low levels to find a pattern.   You should track information such as what you've eaten, whether you had stress or not, and all of your symptoms.  You should do this on a daily basis for a while.   Once you have enough data, your diary will help you know your body so that you can begin to manage your blood glucose levels better.

Quick Start Guide

This section guides you through a simple Glucose Diary session.   You will navigate through the common functions to create and view your health information.   For help on advanced features go to the Detailed Functionality section.

Recording a Glucose Level Reading

You have just taken your glucose level or injected insulin, what do you do? 

  Your data will be more accurate if you record your levels in your diary as soon as possible. It is essential to remember any symptoms, carbs or other factors to gain insight into your blood glucose level. If you are injecting insulin, you can mark in the field, “New Insulin Opened?” that you opened a new vial or pen. The Glucose Diary allows for tracking of glucose levels, insulin, food, carbs, medication, exercise, weight, BP, stress levels, sleep and a host of extras like injection sites, symptoms and lab test results all with just a few screen taps. Enter as little or as much data as you need. Create new items, new medication names, new insulin brand name, new symptoms etc. in your selectable lists.

Step 1

Highlight the date of the level and press the add (+) button.

Step 2

Enter the data.  If you have more than one level or injection in a day, don't forget to enter when the level was taken.

Step 3

Finally, press the “Save” button.  If you do not save before exiting, you will be asked to confirm your action. 

Finding your Glucose Level Patterns

You have entered several days of glucose levels.  You want to see if you recognize any patterns in your life so that you can try and manage your glucose levels better.  The Glucose Diary Reports will help you do this.  The report analysis will not be useful unless you have a few glucose levels entered and your data is accurate.  For accuracy, remember to record your data as soon as you can.

Step 1

Navigate to the Reports menu.

Step 2

Select the “Status Summary” report.  This is an integral report in summarizing the data entered. 

Step 3

Select the “Blood Glucose Log” report.  This provides you with a list view of your levels.

Step 4

There are several Profile reports. Select the “Glucose Profile by Time of Day” report to  provide you with a linear graphical view of your glucose levels by time of day. This allows you to track any possible cycles and pinpoint which time of the day that you need to focus on.

Step 5

There are several Statistic reports. Select the “Averages per Day” or "Averages per Month" report   to view the averages over time.

Step 6

Select the “Injection Site Ratio” or "Injection Site Statistics" reports   to provide you with a graphical view of your injection sites.  This will enable you to manage your injection sites.

Step 7

Select the “Time of Day Statistics” or "Day of Week Statistics" reports to  see a linear graphical view of your glucose levels so that you can track any possible cycles.

Step 8

There are several Correlation reports. Select the correlation reports   to see the correlation between your weight or carbs and your glucose level.

Step 9

Select the Symptom or Factor reports   to see a graphical view of your symptoms and factors. 

Detailed Functionality

Please note that functionality described here varies from system to system.

This section provides details of the Glucose Diary application.   If you have a specific question that is not answered in this section, please utilize the cellHigh Support to ask further questions or send your questions to Support.

The Menu

The Glucose Diary menu is available by pressing the top left arrow by the Glucose Diary program name.  The following table lists the options available through the main menu.

Glucose Diary Menu

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Calendar View  &  List View

When you enter the tracker application, the Calendar View is displayed.  From this view, you can add or edit information for the current day, by highlighting the date from the Calendar View and pressing the add or edit button. To delete an entry, highlight the date and press the delete button.  If you want to see more details, select the List View.  You can even change which fields that display in your list view from the Preferences option.

Calendar View

To customize the look & feel of the calendar, select the Preferences option from the menu

List View

To customize the fields that display in this list, select the Preferences option from the menu

  Adding

To add new glucose information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View then press this add button. The following “Add” information screen is displayed.  Enter the glucose information and then press “save”.

Date

Enter the date and time of day of the glucose information.

Glucose Level

Enter your glucose level. You can change the unit in Preferences.

Insulin

Skip this section if you do not inject insulin. Enter the type of insulin, number of units that you are injecting and the injection site. If any of your items are not on the list, type one in. You can also manage your selectable lists in Preferences. If you opened a new insulin bottle, select "yes" and a visual indicator will appear on your calendar and list views. Changing these visual indicators is done through Preferences.

Food and Exercise

Enter your carbs, foods eaten and exercise.

Symptoms, Factors and Vital Statistics

Enter any symptoms that you were experiencing when your glucose level or injection occurred. You can also enter your weight, blood pressure, factors, stress and sleep in this section.

Medications and Tests

Record any medications or tests here.   If your medication or test is not on the list, type one in. You can also manage your selectable lists in Preferences.  

Additional Information

Enter additional remarks regarding this attack.

Overall

Overall how do you feel? On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad or how good do you feel?

 Editing

To edit information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View or List View and then press this edit button. Pressing this button takes the user to the “Edit” information screen.

Editing

Entering health information

Saving

 You will be asked to confirm your action if you discard before saving your changes

Deleting

To delete information for the current day, select the date by highlighting the date from the Calendar View or List View and then press this delete button.  You will be asked to confirm your action before it is deleted.

Deleting

  Select the “Trashcan” button to delete the selected health information

Confirmation

  You will be asked to confirm your action before the entry is deleted

Reports

Reports are available by pressing the reports option from the top left arrow by the Glucose Diary program name.   After you make your report selection, you will enter the desired date range for your report. The following lists the Glucose Diary reports available.

The Report Menu

Summary

The “Status Summary” report summarizes your glucose health information in one report for the given date range.   It determines your predictors for your glucose levels.  It calculates your minimum, maximum and average health information over the given date range.  Additionally, the most frequent foods, injection sites, factors, and symptoms are listed.   Since this report identifies your frequency patterns, it will be most helpful in managing  your glucose levels.

Blood Glucose  Log

The “Blood Glucose Log”  and "Glucose and Insulin Log" lists your levels for the given date range.  The readings are color coded to help identify issures.

Profiles

The Profile reports, provide you with linear graphs of your health information.  You can see your highs and lows in the given date range.

Statistics

The “Statistics” reports are useful tools that show you numerous statistics including overall average, minimum, maximum, weekly and daily distributions.   

Correlation

The Correlation reports are useful tools that show you the correlation of weight and carbs and your glucose level.   

Injection Sites

The injection reports are useful tools that show you the ratio and statistics of your injection sites.   

Symptoms and Factors

These reports are useful tools that show you the ratio and statistics of your symptoms and factors.   

 Backup Online:  Backing Up Your Information

Your health information is stored locally on your phone.   In order to keep your data safe from any unforeseen cell phone catastrophes such as losing your phone, you should use the Back Up feature provided in the drop down menu option called, “Backup Online”. 

Backup Online Login

Entering Online Credentials

You are ready to backup your data, if you have entered your registered login and password in “Preferences”.  When you press “Backup Online”, the app will establish communication with the online server and then upload your data.  The app will upload no more than 100 records at a time.  So if you have more than 100 records, you will need to press “Backup Online” until all of your data is uploaded.          

Backup Online Syncing

Establishing Communications with the Online Server

Backup Online Success

Confirmation that your records were uploaded successfully.

 Preferences

Your health diary is completely customizable.  You can set preferences for your health tracker, such as color theme, glucose unit, weight unit, which fields to display and visual indicators.  Additionally, password protection, backup and login information is set in this scene.

There are four Preference sections. 

In the “General Settings” drawer you have access to the password protection, unit of measurements and date formats.

In the “Application Settings” drawer you can access the “Reset Data” function as well as managing your customizable drop down lists.

In the “Look & Feel” drawer you can access your color theme and what visual indicators or data appears on your calendar and lists.  

In the “Communication Settings” drawer you can access your cellHigh Online Account Credentials.  In order to back up your data online, you can register for a cellHigh account login enter your registered login and password in this section.

General Settings

Password Protection

Tap the “ON” button to enable password protection for your data.  If you enable password protection you will be prompted for the password.  There are no restrictions on password length or content.  Remember this password, as you will be prompted for this password each time you start your application.  To disable the password protection just press the “OFF” button.

Date Format

Select the correct date format for your region from the drop-down list. 

Application Settings

Manage Choices

The Manage Choices section allows you to add data to and edit your customizable drop-down lists.  All lists that appear in your diary can be added to through this option.  For instance, if you have a particular “Symptom” that does not appear in the list, you can add it here.  When you add information to your diary, you can also at that time add new entries to these lists.  These entries can be edited and deleted here also.

Reset All Data

If you want to erase all of your data and start new, you can do this by pressing the “Reset All Data” button.  Since there is no way to reverse this process, you will be asked to confirm if you really want to do this.  NOTE: you can not undo this action, so be careful and make sure that you do not want the data that is currently in your diary.

Manage Choice List

Adding symptoms to the Symptoms List.  To Add an item, you tap the ‘+’.  To Change an item, you tap it; To Delete an item, you ‘swipe’ it and the Delete appears (following figure)

Deleting an Item

Deleting a symptom from the Symptoms List

Look & Feel

Theme

Customize your diary look by choosing from one of the six color themes.

Display Emoticon

You have the ability to select an emoticon that represents an overall feeling about each entry in your diary.  These emoticons appear on your calendar and list views.  If you don’t want them to display, uncheck the display emoticon checkbox.

Visual Indicators

Visual Indicators help you understand your data.  They represent an event that occurred on a specific day.  These settings allow you to select which event and associate an icon with that event.

Text Indicators

The text that displays on your calendar can be turned on or off here.

List View Fields

The information that displays on the List View, can be changed from here.

Theme

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can customize your look by choosing from six color themes.

Text Indicators

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can turn off the display of the text that displays on your calendar.  “Text Indicator 1” displays the last blood glucose of that day.  “Text Indicator 2” displays the last injection site of that day.

Visual Indicators

You can customize 3 visual indicators that display in your diary

Visual Indicators

Visual Indicators help you understand your data.  They represent an event that occurred on a specific day.  These settings allow you to select which event and associate an icon with that event.  You can display up to 3 visual indicators on your diary.

For each visual indicator, you select which icon to display if the condition specified is true.  To specify the event, you must select the field, operator and value of the event.   In the example to the left, the “Pain” icon will display if the “Symptom” field equals any value other than “Normal”.  This indicates that you have abnormal symptoms on that day, so the “Pain” icon appears.

Visual Indicators:  Icon List

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can customize your look by choosing from several visual indicators

Visual Indicators: Field List

In the Preferences, Look & Feel drawer, you can select the field that will trigger the visual icon to display on your calendar

Communication Settings

Register for a cellHigh Account

In order to back up your data online, you must first register for a cellHigh account login.  You can do this by pressing the “Register” button.

cellHigh Account Credentials

When you register, you will select a login and password.  The login and password that you registered should be entered into the Communication Settings, cellHigh Account Credentials section.