Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that causes your airways to swell and narrow making it difficult to breathe. It is a very common condition with over 25 million people affected in the United States alone.

In order to relieve asthma symptoms such as shortness of breath and chest tightness, people use a rescue or relief inhaler. People with asthma vary in the types of triggers and irritants which cause their symptoms; however asthma is unique in that people carry their inhaler with them, and use it at the time and place when they are experiencing symptoms.

The time and frequency of your rescue inhaler use is one of the most important signals of your level of asthma control. People with uncontrolled asthma are at greater risk of suffering an asthma attack, or worse, ending up in the hospital.

Experts recommend that people with asthma keep track of their symptoms, triggers, and use of asthma medications in an asthma diary. However, remembering to update your diary is tough and it often becomes an inaccurate and incomplete record of your asthma over time.

The Asthmapolis sensor keeps track of your medication use for you, with a record of the time and place you have used your inhaler. The sensor is a small device that attaches to the top of your existing inhaler and stays out of your way when you need to use it. It can be used with both rescue and controller medications for tracking symptoms and adherence respectively. The objective data it collects, and the feedback you get as a result, can help you better understand and manage your asthma!

The Asthmapolis sensor wirelessly syncs with your smart phone using your phone’s built in Bluetooth technology. Pairing the sensor with your phone is an easy, one-time step. Once your sensor is paired, your phone will automatically capture the data from your sensor whenever it is nearby.

The Asthmapolis mobile application for the iPhone and Android allow you to view the data your sensor captures and give you personalized feedback and education on ways to improve your asthma control. Additionally, the Event Log shows details for each event, automatically creating your asthma diary for you.

The Asthmapolis Mobile Application is available in both English and Spanish and can be downloaded for free from the iPhone App Store or the Google Play Store.

Everyone’s asthma is different, and the best way for your physician to understand your asthma is by providing objective data on when and where your asthma symptoms are occurring and how often you take your controller medication.

Your Asthmapolis data can be easily shared with your physician allowing you to review it together during your office visits. Physicians can use the data to remotely monitor your symptoms and determine when a change in therapy may be needed.

Asthma can limit your ability to live a healthy and active life. Symptoms like wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing can interfere with your work, school, and play.

Although asthma is a serious chronic disease that stays with you your whole life, you can still live a healthy and active life by properly managing it.

Asthmapolis helps you gain control of your asthma by providing you with tools to easily track when and where your asthma symptoms are occurring. This data can help you better understand your asthma and how to best manage it.

Asthma is unique in that you carry your medication with you and use it at the time and place when you have symptoms. Asthmapolis allows you to easily track this information and gives you meaningful feedback based on the data it collects.

Asthmapolis attaches to your inhaler and wirelessly syncs with your smart phone. You can track your triggers and symptoms and learn more about your asthma over time. Personalized feedback and education are sent to you on your phone and through our website based on your symptoms. You can easily see how often you use your medication, and set up medication reminders and alerts.

Don’t wait for your next asthma attack. Use Asthmapolis to proactively track and manage your disease.

You have the option to share your Asthmapolis data with your physician or family members.

Parents can track how often their children are taking their controller medication and receive alerts when they use their rescue inhaler. By sharing your data with your physician, you can provide him or her with an accurate picture of your asthma that will allow an objective assessment of your current level of asthma control and whether or not a change in therapy is needed.

Additionally, the Asthmapolis community trends will allow you to see areas in your community where asthma symptoms are occurring most often and common triggers in your area.

Concerned about privacy? So are we! We take every precaution to ensure your data is kept private and we are HIPAA compliant. We store your data in our highly secure, industry-standard cloud computing infrastructure, so you can be sure that it’s protected. You have complete control of if, when, and with whom your information is shared.

More information on the Asthmapolis privacy practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected can be found in our privacy policy.

Over 60% of patients with asthma are not under control, however 80% of those patients don’t realize it. Patients with asthma tend to under report their symptoms causing providers to think their patients are doing fine. This leads providers to under prescribe effective treatments such as inhaled corticosteroids.

Rather than relying on retrospective data or patient recall, using Asthmapolis, healthcare providers can finally have an accurate picture of when and where a patient’s asthma symptoms are occurring and how often they are using their medications.

Using the Asthmapolis provider dashboard, healthcare providers can remotely monitor the asthma symptoms of their patients and easily identify those with uncontrolled asthma and low controller medication adherence.

Asthmapolis provides real-time information that gives you informative views of your patients and their progress. Additionally, Asthmapolis provides customizable alerts so that you can be notified if a patient’s condition worsens.

Asthmapolis means that physicians and patients will both be better informed. It gives both parties access to the same data, allowing for improved communication and understanding between patients and providers. Patients are better able to relate their asthma symptoms to their provider and participate in determining the most effective asthma management plan.

Here’s what patients using Asthmapolis have reported:

I was able to see and relate to my doctor that my asthma is not under control.

I’m now using my controller medicine more regularly and on time.

Each year in the United States asthma accounts for an enormous burden of social and economic costs. 8.4% of Americans, or over 25 million people, suffer from asthma. This translates into over 10 million office visits, two million ED visits, 500,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths each year.

Despite efforts to improve asthma through traditional disease management programs, asthma prevalence has only increased in the past 10 years. Asthmapolis is focused on developing a new approach to chronic respiratory disease management which makes asthma management engaging, interesting, and easy.

While the majority of asthma exacerbations can be prevented through proper management, over 60% of individuals with asthma do not have their disease under control. By collecting data on when and where people with asthma are having symptoms and using inhalers, Asthmapolis is able to provide personalized feedback and education on how to improve control.

In clinical studies of Asthmapolis, after only three months of using the system we found that:

• Uncontrolled asthma declined by 50 percent
• More than 70 percent improved their level of control

To read more about our clinical studies, click here.

Asthma is the 5th most costly disease in the United States today estimated at over $50 billion annually. By helping individuals improve their asthma control, you can reduce the cost of treating asthma by eliminating avoidable hospitalizations, ED visits, and unscheduled office visits due to asthma exacerbations.

Multiple studies have shown that the cost of healthcare for an uncontrolled asthma patient compared to a controlled asthma patient is $3,000-$4,000 greater per year. Asthmapolis has an impressive ROI which will allow you to quickly lower the cost of treating asthma for your patient population and reduce your financial risk.

Quality measurements are changing the way we define accountability and financial incentives within our healthcare system. As a result of historic low performance and promising opportunity for improvement, asthma measures receive particular attention. Payers and health systems that are succeeding are those that take advantage of new opportunities to apply technology to better assess their performance in real time, giving them visibility into day-to-day care and treatment.

Asthmapolis is designed to be readily integrated in a variety of existing health delivery and data analysis systems and put to work to improve the quality of care and performance. It allows payers and physician groups to quickly measure and improve the quality of asthma care and performance on key indicators, to feed this information to reporting systems, and, more important, to cut healthcare costs and improve quality of life.

Asthma is unique in that a medication is often used at the time and place of exposures that cause symptoms. However, traditional studies of asthma typically rely on health care utilization data or patient reported asthma symptoms as primary outcome measures. These indicators have a variety of limitations, and are often affected by recall bias and different interpretations of symptoms. In addition, they offer no information about where symptoms began, or the location where the exposures occurred.

Asthmapolis allows you to track exactly where and when people have asthma symptoms and use asthma inhalers, and what triggers patients perceive as responsible for the development of symptoms. Asthmapolis easily adapts to help answer a wide range of research questions surrounding asthma and public health in a way that has never been possible before.

Asthmapolis brings remote monitoring to asthma epidemiology by providing the first real-time geospatial view of where asthma symptoms are occuring and asthma inhalers are used. Asthmapolis provides an objective, accurate, and reliable record of the burden of asthma.

By aggregating data from many individuals with asthma, Asthmapolis allows you to quantify the burden of asthma in a community, explore environmental exposures and how they correlate with asthma symptoms, and identify spatial and temporal patterns of disease. With improved data, public health researchers and epidemiologists can now better evaluate and target interventions.

The Asthmapolis data can be easily exported in a variety of formats to meet your research needs.

Hawaii

We are working with the University of Hawaii and the CDC on a research study on the island of Hawaii which will evaluate the effect of volcanic fog, known locally as “vog”, on asthma symptoms. Data provided by the Asthmapolis sensors will be compared with environmental data, such as weather and SO₂ emission levels, to determine if exposure to concentrations of vog is associated with increased use of inhalers.

Puget Sound

We are partnering with the VA in the Puget Sound region to provide Asthmapolis sensors to veterans with COPD. The study will evaluate the use of the Asthmapolis sensor in measuring worsening symptoms and exacerbations, as well as determining if environmental factors can be linked to exacerbations.