suggested medication intake or physical exercise for example u s pat nos 5 897 493 and 6 602 191 which are incorporated herein by reference disclose health management systems that can intake information relating to numerous characteristics of a user the ced may use this information to determine a suggested insulin dosage for a user or other parameters in other embodiments the ced may receive input from a variety of sensors e g temperature sensors accelerometers altimeters inter alia to interpret or provide for regional corrections of the electrochemical test performed by the bgms as is already known bgm results can be affected by several environmental parameters such as temperature altitude and humidity etc in one embodiment the bgm calculates a glucose concentration level and transfers this data through a modulating demodulating modem connection to the ced using a carrier signal when received by the ced the conveyed data can inter alia be stored displayed as a value or can initiate a program e g a game play an audio file and or display an image in response to the result the data conveyed by the bgm can include inter alia information about the a test result information about strip usage pattern strip meter coding errors during measurement fig2 shows a combined bgm ced 201 including both a ced 202 and a bgm 204 in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention the bgm 204 is communicatively connected to ced 202 through a modem connection 206 to the either or both of the left and or right audio in ports not shown of.