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

• Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth Vol. 5; no. 8; p. e113
• Main Authors: Tinschert, Peter, Jakob, Robert, Barata, Filipe, Kramer, Jan-Niklas, Kowatsch, Tobias
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada JMIR Publications 02.08.2017
• Subjects: Asthma; Disease management; Gamification; Original Paper; Patients; Taxonomy; United States > US; behavior and behavior mechanisms; self care; smartphone; mobile health; review; mobile applications; mHealth; asthma; eHealth; disease management

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 red...