Internal medicine

Pathology

Disease

Quality of life (healthcare)

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Economic growth

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Pandemic

Nursing

Intensive care medicine

Health care

Economics

Remote patient monitoring

Asthma

Interstitial lung disease

Lung

Telemedicine

Disease monitoring

Spirometry

Medical emergency

Medicine

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

The widespread use of smartphones and the internet has enabled self-monitoring and more hybrid-care models. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated remote monitoring, including in the heterogenous and often vulnerable group of patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILDs). Home monitoring in ILD has the potential to improve access to specialist care, reduce the burden on health-care systems, improve quality of life for patients, identify acute and chronic disease worsening, guide treatment decisions, and simplify clinical trials.

Home monitoring in interstitial lung diseases