up a separate window displaying the patient specific color based report 114 for data interpretation see fig1 which depicts an exemplary color mapping report to exit computer program 112 the user clicks on exit button 322 and computer program 112 is closed various graphical user interface designs may be used without departing from the scope of the invention further various ways in which a user may interact with the graphical user interface include but are not limited to mouse and joystick controls keyboard controls voice recognition controls touch screen controls etc without departure from the scope of the invention fig4 illustrates an exemplary window for setting the parameters to generate a color based report 114 for data interpretation i e setting for color mapping report shown here as color mapping report demonstration 400 in this exemplary embodiment to view this window user clicks on settings button 320 on start up window 300 see fig3 though listed in sequence the selections which activate these functions may be selected at any time and be changed interactively the user may select in any order the following user defined control options for color coding numeric results from a patient 39 s metering system during an encounter to select day and time slots 402 the user chooses a number of days 404 ranging from.