AsthmaMD app

• Symptom tracking
• Trigger recording
• Peak flow diary 
• Action plans
• Medication tracking
• Medication reminder
• Appointment reminder
• Reports for sharing

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Read a clinical review of this app.

• collect medical information? Yes
• require a login? Yes
• have password protection? Yes
• have a privacy policy? Yes
• require internet access? Yes

✔ Provides a video tutorial.

✔ 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 plan) differs from those we use in New Zealand. It uses a 3-stage plan which is somewhat similar to our 4-stage plan but without the oral steroid step. Our 3-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 New Zealand one. See Resources(external link) 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.

✘ App can be troubling to navigate, eg, adding and removing medications involves editing the whole action plan.

✘ Could not see any information on how to use a spacer.

✘ Using the app is not entirely intuitive (eg, holding your phone vertically and horizontally gives you different features for different sections). Watching the video tutorial is recommended.

✘ No asthma control test.

✘ List of medications is US-based and may be confusing to New Zealand users.