AsthmaMD is a new app available for the iPhone that will help patients keep track of their number and severity of Asthma attacks, medication use etc.This information can then be shared with their Doctor to provide better overall care and also to help predict and possibly prevent attacks.
There is an opt in option that will allow users to share their data anonymously to Asthma researchers. Once aggregated, the information can provide real time data to Doctors which can better help them to treat patients.
It’s interesting to think of how applications like this will begin to evolve on mobile platforms and the creators of AsthmaMD have put a great deal of thought into how best to leverage the mobile platform for better outcomes.
In an e-mail posted on TechCruch by Salim Madjd one of the creators of the app outlines a few of the possibles that they are exploring:
Just imagine what might be possible now with the data we gather from this app. For example, since we have precise location of patient and the time of their asthma activity we can correlate that against local pollutant count, adverse weather changes, and different type of pollutants. Or imagine if one area in a city shows higher per capita asthma severity than the rest, we can clearly show that in a map and alert the parent of a potential pollutant by a nearby business. Or imagine this data mashed up against a real estate site. For parents or to-be parents they can also look at the asthma activity in any specific area and make more informed decisions about where they want to move.
There is also ability to better understand the effect of different medications, on age groups, gender, on managing asthma caused by different type of triggers from pollutant to exercise, etc.
We can even alert users of higher asthma chances in real time if we detect users of similar asthma history reporting asthma issues. Ultimately we could even send tweeter streams with zipcode or geocode of areas with asthma flare ups on real time. This app has the potential to make an impact on people lives unlike anything we’ve seen before and on personal level is one of the most exciting projects I’ve worked on.
Resources:
Read the release article on TechCruch,
Go right to the source AsthmaMD’s website.
