TY - JOUR N2 - Telemedicine is one of the most innovative and promising applications of technology in contemporary medicine. Telemedical systems, a sort of distributed measurement systems, are used for continuous or periodic monitoring of human vital signals in the environment of living. This approach has several advantages in comparison to traditional medical care: e.g. patients experience fewer hospitalizations, emergency room visits, lost time from work, the costs of treatment are reduced, and the quality of life is improved. Currently, chronic respiratory diseases comprise one of the most serious public health problems. Simultaneously patients suffering from these diseases are well suitable for home monitoring. This paper describes the design and technical realization of a telemedical system that has been developed as a platform suitable for monitoring patients with chronic pulmonary diseases and fitted to Polish conditions. The paper focuses on the system's architecture, included medical tests, adopted hardware and software, and preliminary internal evaluation. The performed tests demonstrated good overall performance of the system. At present further work goes on to put it into practice. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/107083/PDF/Journal10178-VolumeXVII%20Issue4_03%20paper.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/107083 PY - 2010 IS - No 4 EP - 547 DO - 10.2478/v10178-010-0044-2 KW - telemedicine KW - distributed measurement system KW - web services KW - spirometry KW - interrupter technique A1 - Mroczka, Janusz A1 - Polak, Adam A1 - Głomb, Grzegorz A1 - Guszkowski, Tomasz A1 - Jabłoński, Ireneusz A1 - Kasprzak, Bogdan A1 - Pękala, Janusz A1 - Stępień, Andrzej A1 - Świerczyński, Zbigniew PB - Polish Academy of Sciences Committee on Metrology and Scientific Instrumentation DA - 2010 T1 - Telemedical System "Pulmotel-2010" for Monitoring Patients with Chronic Pulmonary Diseases SP - 537 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/107083 T2 - Metrology and Measurement Systems ER -