5849378 A method of remotely monitoring a patient and a remote disease management system are disclosed. The system comprises a patient cell phone acquiring data about a medical condition of a patient and automatically reformatting the acquired medical condition data into a developed text message format for a text messaging technology and transmitting the acquired medical condition data using the text messaging technology over cellular communication for the cell phone； and a server receiving the medical condition data and storing the medical condition data in the patient's medical record. Further is disclosed is the cell phone with for remotely monitoring a patient, comprising means for acquiring data about a medical condition of a patient by a cell phone； and means for automatically reformatting the acquired medical condition data into a developed text message format for a text messaging technology and transmitting the acquired medical condition data by the cell phone using the text messaging technology over cellular communication for the cell phone, to a server.
