Mobile Technology in Allergic Rhinitis: Evolution in Management or Revolution in Health and Care?

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Allergic rhinitis

“…Other mobile tools have been proposed 171 but few have been tested 172 . There is an urgent need to replicate existing data and to optimize mobile health for AR management in the digital transformation of health and care 173 . An interesting approach will be to propose alerts for pollen 174 , pollution or asthma exacerbations 175 .…”

Telemedicine and emerging technologies for health care in allergy/immunology

“…Many devices and apps are available for RPM including accelerometers to track activity, glucometers to track blood glucose levels, and devices to monitor heart rates. Comprehensive reviews of RPM devices that track symptoms of allergic rhinitis and asthma were recently published by Bousquet et al 52 and by Kagen and Garland. 53 The advantage of this approach over patient self-report is that the devices can directly report objective information to the monitor, which overcomes distortions introduced by patient bias.…”

Digital technologies for an improved management of respiratory allergic diseases: 10 years of clinical studies using an online platform for patients and physicians

“…Diaries are available for pollen allergies in European countries, some of them also having been used in trials or observational studies [10,[14][15][16][17][18]. In most of the study settings, the respective app was directly downloaded by patients, with no or only occasional intervention of the allergist [18][19][20]. Although the use of mobile technologies permits an unprecedentedly easy collection of big data sets independent from geographic location and social differences, some observational studies were characterized by a poor adherence of their users to data recording, sometimes even dropping below 10% after only 2 weeks [10,19].…”