“Asthma is a struggle – imagine carrying a 50kg stone around all day” says Toni Latimer-Simpson from Advisory Patient Forum (APF) in a recently published article in MedTech. For people living with severe asthma, daily tasks can be a real challenge. Could ‘smart inhalers’ empower patients by providing information on what triggers asthma attacks? For more details …
For people with asthma, their inhaler plays a central role in managing the condition. These simple drug delivery devices have been used for decades to deliver medication to the lungs. Regular treatment with inhaled controller medication helps to keep asthma under control and, for some patients, ‘rescue’ or relief medication can limit the impact of …
This year is Milan that will host the ERS Congress, the largest meeting of respiratory professionals in the world! On Sunday 10th September the role of e-health in respiratory conditions, asthma and COPD in particular, will be discussed during a symposium that will take place at 14h45 in Session 171. The symposium will assess the …
The aim of this task was to define the myAirCoach test campaign strategy, in order to develop a system that assists patients in recognising worsening of symptoms and function and to timely adjust behaviour or treatment. Two test campaigns will be organized: first, a quantification campaign running from Sept-Oct 2015, aimed at the parameterization/instantiation of …
The current deliverable is directly connected with the work performed under the Task 7.4 “Standardization and concertation actions” and serves as the initial plan for the collection, organization, storing and sharing of the knowledge and data created within the project. The described data management plan is based on several inputs, namely : a) the MyAirCoach …
This deliverable D7.5 (first version) is the outcome of a living report (another one is planned for M36), which documents the planned and accomplished outreach and standardization activities of the myAirCoach project so far. The activities include both those carried out by individual partners and by the project as a whole. More specifically the document …
The main objective of this deliverable is to provide a detailed definition of the myAirCoach Patient modelling and representation framework (in order to build a structured, realistic and machine readable representation of the patient models) by taking into consideration existing knowledge of the consortium partners on virtual user modelling (VERITAS project and the VUMS cluster). …
MyAirCoach Dissemination Plan describes all activities planned to be undertaken in myAirCoach in support of the dissemination gained throughout the first year of project activities, and in line with the Horizon 2020 open access policy. Open access is defined as the practice that provides online-access to research outputs to all, with no license restrictions, so …
The myAirCoach project aims to create a holistic mHealth tool for people with asthma. A healthy diet is crucial for health and well-being and therefore dietary monitoring and interventions should be considered for inclusion in the myAirCoach system. This deliverable comprises: • A review of the literature regarding relevant links between diet and general health, …
MyAirCoach Dissemination Plan describes all activities planned to be undertaken in myAirCoach in support of the dissemination gained throughout the first year of project activities, and in line with the Horizon 2020 open access policy. It provides guidelines for dissemination of information from activities within the scope of myAirCoach. This document will be considered as …