Telemonitoring for COPD Patients: Standardized Bluetooth Interface Between Medical and Mobile Devices.

Increasing number of people owns a smartphone or tablet, so that these devices serve as a gateway in the field of telemedicine. Treatments with telemedicine gain importance to the health system in Germany. Especially, patients with lung disease benefit from this kind of care. The effort of this project is an innovative concept to receive personal health data with a mobile phone. The data transmission is realized by a standardized Bluetooth interface. This interface is used for a telemedical monitoring of patients with chronic pulmonary diseases.