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# Patient Monitoring

> Automated monitoring of patient medical data.

# Overview

Metriport supports two ways to access patient medical data:

* **Adhoc**: you request data whenever you need it through various API endpoints (see [Start Network Query](/medical-api/api-reference/network/start-network-query) for an example)
* **Automated**: you receive the data without initiating the request, either through [Realtime Patient Notifications](/medical-api/handling-data/patient-monitoring#real-time-patient-notifications)
  or [Scheduled Queries](/medical-api/handling-data/patient-monitoring#scheduled-queries).

Patient Monitoring is the automated way to receive patient data.

# Real-time Patient Notifications

Metriport’s Realtime Patient Notifications allows you to subscribe your patients to certain types of notifications.

These notifications include:

* ADTs (Admission, Discharge, Transfer); see the [ADT notification schemas](/medical-api/handling-data/realtime-patient-notifications#patientadmit)
* Pharmacy-related notifications; see the [pharmacy notification schema](/medical-api/handling-data/realtime-patient-notifications#patientpharmacy)
* Laboratory-related notifications; see the [laboratory notification schema](/medical-api/handling-data/realtime-patient-notifications#patientlaboratory)

For more information see [Real-time Patient Notifications](/medical-api/handling-data/realtime-patient-notifications).

# Scheduled Queries

This allows you to specify a schedule in which queries should be executed automatically.

This is a scheduled version of adhoc data queries.

You can choose one of the [supported frequencies](/medical-api/handling-data/scheduled-queries#overview) to automatically trigger a Query for each of the supported sources.

For more details, see [Scheduled Queries](/medical-api/handling-data/scheduled-queries).