A system and method for monitoring a patient's blood glucose levels and communicating such levels to a patient care network is provided. More particularly, a monitor for measuring blood glucose levels may be adapted to alert the patient and preselected members of the patient care network in the event that the patient's blood glucose levels fall below a threshold amount. The monitor may be further adapted to communicate with means for automatically delivering glucose into a patient's body and means for delivering insulin into the patient's body, each means operating alone or in combination. Such a system and method may have applications in preventing symptomatic hypoglycemic episodes and providing diagnostic aid to medical professionals.
