The invention provides a system for monitoring blood pressure that
includes: 1) a gateway software system that receives blood pressure
information collected with a blood-pressure monitor and transmitted with
a wireless interface; 2) a database that receives the blood pressure
information from the gateway software system and stores this information
or derivatives thereof; and 3) a web services software interface that, in
response to a request from a secondary software system, retrieves the
blood pressure information or derivative thereof from the database.