Smart Inhalers: Revolutionizing Asthma and COPD Management

Smart inhalers are innovative devices designed to administer respiratory medication while also offering Bluetooth connectivity to share usage data with healthcare providers for better asthma and COPD management.

Smart Inhalers With Bluetooth Connectivity FAQ

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What is a smart inhaler?

The inhaler is part of this transformation, with smart inhalers having emerged on the scene. A smart inhaler is an inhaler that integrates connectivity with a mobile app, via Bluetooth, for instance. These devices are built with sensor technology that helps record data about the time and date of use, and the location of the patient at each use.

How does smart inhaler technology affect adherence?

Advances in smart inhaler technology allow feedback to users on their inhaler technique with some devices. This allows the calculation of a true level of adherence (dose taken at the right time in the right manner). This value is well below those that might be recorded by medicine possession ratio or dose counting.

Can a Bluetooth inhaler help a patient with asthma?

Propeller Health, a Wisconsin-based company, wants to help those with respiratory problems by supplementing medicine with technology. The firm has wired an inhaler with a Bluetooth transmitter to communicate with an asthma patient’s smartphone.

Is the smartinhaler compatible with all inhaler devices?

Several noted that the Smartinhaler is not compatible with all inhaler devices. Commentators agreed that improving adherence in appropriate groups of patients was likely to lead to better control and reduced symptoms, and could potentially reduce the number of hospital visits and need for escalation of treatment.

Can connected smart inhalers improve airways disease outcomes?

Connected smart inhalers show great potential to improve these issues, and thus outcomes from airways disease. In this mini-review, we considered the published evidence that the use of smart inhalers leads to more doses of preventative treatment being taken on time and with appropriate techniques.