ReviewThe journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice
Mobile Health and Inhaler-Based Monitoring Devices for Asthma Management.
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Who cites it
40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 72 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Role of Access and Cost-Effectiveness in Managing Asthma: A Systematic Review.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2022Pooled it
- A Digital Asthma Self-Management Program for Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Digital Self-Management Platform for Adult Asthma: Randomized Attention-Placebo Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Trial
- Improving Adherence in Urban Youth With Asthma: Role of Community Health Workers.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2022Trial
- Emerging Therapeutic Strategies in Asthma: Advances in Treatment, Drug Delivery, Drug Adherence, and Disease Management.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2026Review
- Digital health in allergy care: current practices, evidence, and future prospects.Frontiers in allergy · 2026Review
- From Innovation to Integration: Bridging the Gap Between IoMT Technologies and Real-World Health Management Systems.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Larger quality-of-life gains with an asthma support app: a randomised controlled trial.ERJ open research · 2025Article
- An mHealth App and System Architecture for Respiratory Disease Management: Design Principles, Tool Development, and Pilot Usability Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Flow Profiles Identify Sources of Poor Metered Dose Inhaler Technique: An Observational Study in Patients with Long-Term Pressurized Metered Dose Inhaler Use.CHEST pulmonary · 2025Article
- Asthma Symptom Self-Monitoring Methods for Children and Adolescents: Present and Future.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Enhancing Adult Asthma Management: A Review on the Utility of Remote Home Spirometry and Mobile Applications.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- Role of digital education through smartphones in improving knowledge among asthma patients: A preliminary study.Narra J · 2024Article
- An Asthma Plan for Hawai'i: It's Time to Trial Technology-based Interventions.Hawai'i journal of health & social welfare · 2024Article
- Impact of socioeconomic factors on allergic diseases.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2024Review
- A Review of Sensor-Based Interventions for Supporting Patient Adherence to Inhalation Therapy.Patient preference and adherence · 2024Review
- Factors Affecting Usage of a Digital Asthma Monitoring Application by Old-Age Asthmatics Living in Inner Central Portugal.Clinical interventions in aging · 2024Observational
- Measurement of adherence to inhaled corticosteroids by self-report and electronic medication monitoring.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2023Article
- Mobile Health for Asthma.CHEST pulmonary · 2023Review
- Anticipated barriers and facilitators for implementing smart inhalers in asthma medication adherence management.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Mobile health and web applications (apps), wearables, and other personal monitoring devices have tremendous potential to improve the management of asthma. More than 500 asthma-related apps, whether standalone or paired with sensors on inhalers, are currently available for health education, symptom recording, tracking of inhaler use, displaying environmental alerts, and providing medication reminders. Benefits of these tools include the ability to longitudinally collect symptom, trigger, and inhaler usage data, allowing the detection of significant changes over time to help patients and their caregivers determine whether symptoms are worsening. In addition, data from external information sources, including weather, allergen, and air quality reports, can be integrated with user-specific data to enhance predictions on when patients may experience symptoms and/or need to avoid triggers. Barriers to adoption of asthma-related apps and inhaler-based devices include uncertain efficacy and effectiveness, potential high cost, sustained user engagement, and concerns about privacy. Moreover, ensuring the acceptability and utility of asthma management apps for individuals of all races/ethnicities, socioeconomic groups, ages, genders, and literacy levels is necessary. Based on studies thus far, mobile health apps and inhaler-based devices have great potential to serve as useful tools in the patient-doctor relationship and revolutionize asthma care.
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