Spirometry data systems, methods, and apparatuses

A method for healthcare monitoring comprising:

• capturing, via an remote patient spirometry device, patient measurements of spirometry-based lung function as remote patient spirometry data for a patient based on measurements of forced exhales by the patient into the remote patient spirometry device during a remote patient spirometry session without supervision by healthcare personnel, the remote patient spirometry data comprising airflow rate and duration of an exhale of the patient, the remote patient spirometry device being configured to be used by the patient without supervision by healthcare personnel in a patient's home and remote from a healthcare facility;
• implementing a pulmonary health application on a mobile communications device that establishes a first communications link with the remote patient spirometry device, prompts the user to perform the remote patient spirometry session using the remote patient spirometry device, and receives the remote patient spirometry data from the remote patient spirometry device via the first communications link for the remote patient spirometry session;
• establishing a second communications link between the mobile communications device and a cloud service to receive, by the cloud service, the remote patient spirometry and the therapeutic data from the mobile communications device;
• processing, by the cloud service, the remote patient spirometry data based on a relationship with historical spirometry data, the historical spirometry data having been previously stored in a spirometry database and the historical data comprising trustworthy spirometry data, the trustworthy spirometry data being trustworthy because the trustworthy spirometry data was captured using a diagnostic spirometry device while the patient was under supervision of healthcare personnel during a spirometry session during which the trustworthy spirometry data was captured;
• validating the remote patient spirometry data captured by the remote patient spirometry device against the trustworthy spirometry data by determining that the remote patient spirometry data is within a defined validation threshold range of the trustworthy spirometry data;
• based on the processed and validated remote patient spirometry data, determining that a threshold decline in the pulmonary health of the patient has occurred;
• providing a health-based notification in response to determining that greater than the threshold decline in pulmonary health for the patient has occurred;
• in response to determining that greater than the threshold decline in pulmonary health for the patient has occurred, instructing the mobile communications device to increase a frequency of prompting the user to perform remote patient spirometry sessions using the remote patient spirometry device;
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• storing the remote patient spirometry data.