Patent ID: 7865242

Claim:
A patient's device having an at least unidirectional, wireless interface for receiving a data signal, the wireless interface being adapted to receive medical or operational data from an implantable medical device, a data communication interface for accessing a wide area network or a public telecommunication network or both wherein the patient's device further comprises an automatic routing/dialling module connected to the data communication interface and being adapted to establish an automatic access to a modem connected to the data communication interface by automatically selecting one of a plurality of possible connection parameters, the connection parameters to be selected including at least one of an individual modem, if more than one modem is connected to the data communication interface, and a prefix number for a remote access to a remote device over a public network automatically selecting a dial-up telephone number, wherein the automatic routing/dialling module is adapted to initiate a remote data communication connection via an available modem connected to the data communication interface depending both on the type of available modem and the priority of a message to be communicated, wherein the automatic routing/dialling module comprises or is connected to an access number memory containing an access number for establishing a data communication to a remote device, and wherein the automatic routing/dialling module comprises or is connected to a prefix number selector comprising or being connected to a prefix number memory containing a prefix number list, wherein the prefix number list contains prefix numbers to be dialled prior to the access number.