A diabetes care management system for managing blood glucose levels
associated with diabetes comprising a computing device and an insulin
delivery device. The computing device generally includes (i) a memory
comprising one or more optimal blood glucose values, one or more self
care values of a patient, one or more measured blood glucose values, and
one or more scaling factors for weighting the impact on a future blood
glucose value and that are customizable to an individual patient to
predict the effect on the blood glucose of self care actions performed by
the individual patient; (ii) a microprocessor, in communication with the
memory, programmed to (A) determine the one or more scaling factors from
one or more physiological parameters including body mass, metabolism
rate, fitness level or hepatic or peripheral insulin sensitivity, or
combinations thereof, and (B) calculate a further value, the further
value being based on the self care values, and on the one or more optimal
blood glucose values, and on the one or more scaling factors; and (iii) a
display configured to display information according to the further value;
and (iv) a housing, wherein the memory and the microprocessor are housed
within the housing, thereby providing a hand-held, readily transportable
computing device. The insulin delivery device may deliver insulin in
response to information associated with the further value.