A portable medical data acquisition communication device stores tools necessary for personal therapy and establishing communication with at least some of the tools to read out information and/or with one or more external databases to transmit the information into the databases. The device includes a housing (100′；) having a first half piece, a second half piece, a closing element, and electronics (110). The electronics include a power supply (111)； a processor unit； a memory unit； at least one short-range communication device； at least one long-range communication device configured to communicate with the one or more external databases； a user interface (120)； and at least one trigger signal generating element (123) configured to generate and transmit a trigger signal to the processor unit to effect wake-up or sleep of the electronics (110) when the two half pieces of said housing (100′；) get into a certain distance to each other.
