title: Telemedicine: interventional decentralised blood pressure telemonitoring (idTBPM).
abstract: Telemedicine comprises different methods of bridging a spatial distance between doctor, medical and care services and patients. These include mere data transmissions as well as alarm functionalities, consultations and therapy recommendations. A special form of telemedicine application is the interventional decentralised telemonitoring (idTM). Here the patient-practitioner relationship forms the basis for therapy control and optimisation using telemetrical medical data. To identify areas of indication of idTM, a detailed definition of transferred parameters, alarm conditions and intervention algorithms is required as a well as cost efficiency and feasibility studies. The quality of the telemedical application is determined by the medical quality of the derived actions.
authors.affiliation: Centre of Nephrology Göttingen GbR (NZG), Germany.
authors.forename: Egbert Godehard
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.affiliation: University Medical Centre Göttingen, Institute of Medical Informatics, Germany.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stahmann
authors.affiliation: Centre of Nephrology Göttingen GbR (NZG), Germany.
authors.forename: Claas Lennart
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Neumann
mesh_terms: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000379:methods*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012955:Societies, Medical; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents