A patient monitoring system comprising: - a patient monitoring device adapted to monitor a patient, thereby generating patient monitoring data, and - an output device adapted to provide a user-specific control interface to a user, which is adapted to allow the user to control the patient monitoring device, in accordance with user-specific control rules, wherein the output device is a mobile device which is separated from the patient monitoring device and which comprises: - a user identification unit adapted to identify the user, - a rules providing unit adapted to provide the user-specific control rules, which define a provision of the user-specific control interface for controlling the patient monitoring device, depending on the identified user, - a detector with a detection region, wherein the detector is adapted to detect an identity indication of the patient monitoring device indicative of the identity of the patient monitoring device, if the identity indication is within the detection region, wherein the patient monitoring device is adapted to provide the identity indication, and wherein the output device and the patient monitoring device are adapted such that the output device provides the user-specific control interface to the user for controlling the patient monitoring device in accordance with the provided user-specific control rules, if the detector detects the identity indication within the detection region. - a patient monitoring device adapted to monitor a patient, thereby generating patient monitoring data, and - an output device adapted to provide a user-specific control interface to a user, which is adapted to allow the user to control the patient monitoring device, in accordance with user-specific control rules, wherein the output device is a mobile device which is separated from the patient monitoring device and which comprises: - a user identification unit adapted to identify the user, - a rules providing unit adapted to provide the user-specific control rules, which define a provision of the user-specific control interface for controlling the patient monitoring device, depending on the identified user, - a detector with a detection region, wherein the detector is adapted to detect an identity indication of the patient monitoring device indicative of the identity of the patient monitoring device, if the identity indication is within the detection region, wherein the patient monitoring device is adapted to provide the identity indication, and wherein the output device and the patient monitoring device are adapted such that the output device provides the user-specific control interface to the user for controlling the patient monitoring device in accordance with the provided user-specific control rules, if the detector detects the identity indication within the detection region. - a user identification unit adapted to identify the user, - a rules providing unit adapted to provide the user-specific control rules, which define a provision of the user-specific control interface for controlling the patient monitoring device, depending on the identified user, - a detector with a detection region, wherein the detector is adapted to detect an identity indication of the patient monitoring device indicative of the identity of the patient monitoring device, if the identity indication is within the detection region, wherein the patient monitoring device is adapted to provide the identity indication, and wherein the output device and the patient monitoring device are adapted such that the output device provides the user-specific control interface to the user for controlling the patient monitoring device in accordance with the provided user-specific control rules, if the detector detects the identity indication within the detection region. wherein the patient monitoring device is adapted to provide the identity indication, and wherein the output device and the patient monitoring device are adapted such that the output device provides the user-specific control interface to the user for controlling the patient monitoring device in accordance with the provided user-specific control rules, if the detector detects the identity indication within the detection region.