Health Device Profile

The Bluetooth Health Device Profile (HDP) allows the transmission of health and medical related data between Bluetooth devices. The typical uses cases are wireless blood pressure monitors, weight scales, blood glucose meters and ECG transmitters.

The HDP profile offers unique features and extra reliability not included in the other Bluetooth profiles. A key feature in the HDP profile is also the application level interoperability defined by a set of IEEE 11073-xxxxx standards.

The HDP defines two roles:

HDP sink: this role is for the device that receives the data from one or several medical sensors and processes it or relays it to other services like Personal Health Records.

HDP source: this role is for the device that is used to make the measurements and transmit them over Bluetooth connection for future processing, for example a blood pressure meter.

Summary:

• SDK (HDP) supports both HDP source and sink (raw HDP gateway)

• SDK (HDP) has dedicated versions for IEEE agents:

• Blood Pressure Meter

• Weight Scale

• Blood glugoce level meter