Wearable system promises to stem asthma attacks – FierceMobileHealthcare (press release)


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Wearable system promises to stem asthma attacks
FierceMobileHealthcare (press release)
A new wearable tracking system that monitors heart rate, lung function and environmental factors may soon help asthma sufferers avoid attacks. The Health and Environmental Tracker (HET), designed by a research team at North Carolina State University, …
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Children’s Health app at center of effort to help patients manage asthma – FierceMobileHealthcare (press release)

Children's Health app at center of effort to help patients manage asthma
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The North Texas area has a significant number of children with asthma, so the condition has been a huge focus for the health system as well as for its partner, the Health and Wellness Alliance for Children, Julie Hall-Barrow, vice president of virtual

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UCLA, USC partner on mHealth projects to help young asthma patients – FierceMobileHealthcare (press release)

UCLA, USC partner on mHealth projects to help young asthma patients
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Scientists from University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California are embarking on a $6 million research effort to use smartphones and smartwatches to help young asthma sufferers improve thier health, according to an …
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Asthma attack triggers focus of mHealth research project – FierceMobileHealthcare (press release)

Asthma attack triggers focus of mHealth research project
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Researchers at Southern Methodist University and the University of Maryland are collaborating on a wearable device to help pediatric asthma patients. The tool, which will be worn as a vest by patients, will monitor and track pollen levels, carbon

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Improving care transitions for pediatric asthma patients – FierceMobileHealthcare (press release)

Improving care transitions for pediatric asthma patients
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The following is an interview published in the FierceHealthIT eBook "Technology to Enable Care Transitions." Ivor Horn, M.D., an emergency medical physician at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., has her sights set on creating truly …

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Qualcomm collaboration to focus on personalizing pediatric asthma therapy – FierceMobileHealthcare (press release)

Qualcomm collaboration to focus on personalizing pediatric asthma therapy
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Qualcomm and Rady Children's Hospital (San Diego, Calif.) have joined forces to launch a 3G-enabled kit for monitoring the activities of asthmatic children, according to an announcement. The initiative is aimed at reducing costs from emergency room

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Mobile measuring of asthma symptoms, adherence in teenagers effective – FierceMobileHealthcare (press release)

Mobile measuring of asthma symptoms, adherence in teenagers effective
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In the study, 53 adolescents aged 12-18 years with a diagnosis of asthma and prescribed inhalers were recruited from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. Quantitative and qualitative assessment of asthma symptoms and adherence 

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