ARTICLE SUMMARY:
The management of asthma is a problem that’s highly amenable to a connected health solution because there are known treatment strategies for keeping patients under control and out of the hospital; there is a knowledge gap between what happens at the patient level—in terms of adherence to prescribed therapies, the triggers that cause a patient’s disease to flare up, and the individual’s response to therapies—and clinical decision-making by the physician.
As discussions of new medical delivery models have emerged over the past few years, it’s interesting that the emphasis has begun to shift away from the clinical efficacy of any given therapy—a drug, or a device
