The Potential of Mobile Apps for Improving Asthma Self-Management: A Review of Publicly Available and Well-Adopted Asthma Apps.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective disease self-management lowers asthma's burden of disease for both individual patients and health care systems. In principle, mobile health (mHealth) apps could enable effective asthma self-management interventions that improve a patient's quality of life while simultaneously reducing the overall treatment costs for health care systems. However, prior reviews in this field have found that mHealth apps for asthma lack clinical evaluation and are often not based on medical guidelines. Yet, beyond the missing evidence for clinical efficacy, little is known about the potential apps might have for improving asthma self-management.

Objective

The aim of this study was to assess the potential of publicly available and well-adopted mHealth apps for improving asth

SUBMITTER: Tinschert P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5559650 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature