The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and LifeMap Solutions have announced initial results for their Asthma Health app.
The app is designed to allow asthma patients participate in a large-scale medical research study through their iPhones. The app was released six months ago.
"We recruited and enrolled over 8,600 research participants in our study remotely via the Asthma Health app without direct, in-person contact. The breadth, depth and quality of the data we've obtained, in one of the largest real-world epidemiological studies of asthma, has exceeded our expectations. Our experience demonstrates why mobile apps are fundamentally transforming medical research," said Eric Schadt, PhD, the Jean C. and James W. Crystal professor of genomics at Icahn School of Medicine and founding director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology.
The app's newest features include a "Doctor Dashboard" and integration with Epic.