An app for people with asthma wanting to record their peak flow readings, asthma symptoms, triggers and medication.
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This app allows users to record their peak flow readings, asthma symptoms, triggers and medication. Users can email their records to others for example, their healthcare provider, family members of their school. The app allows users to create a 3-stage asthma action plan. The app records data anonymously for research purposes. For a more detailed description of the app, see Google Play or iTunes and for a detailed review, see Reviews.
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✔ Good video tutorials. ✔ Symptom and peak flow tracking, and action plan is automatically triggered if enter concerning data. ✔ Medication reminders ✔ Data syncing, and can have multiple users. ✔ Action plans can be easily followed step by step. There are also auto customised peak flow ranges for each step. ✔ Data can be exported. |
✘ The adult action plan template (NIH action plans) differs from those we use in NZ. It uses a three stage plan which is somewhat similar to our four stage plan but without the oral steroid step. Our three stage plan has oral steroids for the yellow stage instead of increasing preventer medication. It also doesn't have a SMART action plan and the plans in general are not particularly customisable. The child action plan seems similar to the NZ one. See Resources Asthma Foundation, NZ ✘ The peak flow ranges for each step appears to be auto generated from height and/or best peak flow reading. There does not appear to be a way of manually entering peak flow ranges for each step. ✘ Could not see any information on how to use a spacer. ✘ Using the app is not entirely intuitive (e.g. holding your phone vertically and horizontally gives you different features for different sections). I recommend watching the video tutorial ✘ No asthma control test ✘ List of medications list is US-based and may be confusing to NZ users. |
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Review details
Date of review: March 2017
Platform reviewed: Android
App version: 1.7.10.5
Download size: 9.13 MB
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