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Real-World M3-BREATHE: Toward Multimodal Mobile Monitoring of Behaviour, Respiration, and Exposures for Treatment and Health Evaluation
Published on: June 5, 2026
Mobile Health for Asthma
Andrew Kouri1, Samir Gupta1,2
1Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
CHEST Pulmonary
|August 4, 2026
Summary
Mobile health (mHealth) offers potential solutions for asthma care gaps. Addressing challenges in effectiveness, accessibility, and integration is key to realizing its full potential for personalized digital asthma management.
Area of Science:
- Digital Health
- Respiratory Medicine
- Health Informatics
Background:
- Asthma is a widespread condition with substantial individual and healthcare burdens.
- Mobile health (mHealth) technologies present opportunities to address existing asthma care deficits.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review the current landscape of mHealth for adult asthma management.
- To identify challenges hindering widespread mHealth adoption in asthma care.
- To explore future directions for asthma mHealth.
Main Methods:
- This study is a narrative review of existing literature on asthma mHealth.
- Identified and categorized current mHealth asthma solutions into four types: standalone apps, digital inhalers, digital spirometers, and other devices.
- Analyzed challenges and future possibilities for mHealth in asthma.
Main Results:
- The number of asthma mHealth options is increasing, categorized by technology.
- Evidence for mHealth effectiveness is emerging but difficult to assess due to technological diversity.
- Key challenges include proving effectiveness, ensuring accessibility, maintaining engagement, clinical integration, and safety.
Conclusions:
- Overcoming challenges in evidence, accessibility, engagement, integration, and safety is crucial for clinical viability.
- Asthma mHealth, potentially combined with AI, can enable personalized digital care, improve research validity, and enhance virtual care.
- Healthcare providers should prepare for the mHealth revolution and advocate for safe and equitable solutions.
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