Pulmonary monitoring using smartphones

Abstract

Pulmonary assessment is widely employed by medical professionals and has become an important marker of health. It is used for screening, diagnostics, and management of chronic pulmonary diseases like asthma, chronic bronchitis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. However, pulmonary assessment has mostly been restricted to self-report and routine monitoring at a physician's office. Smartphones have disrupted this practice, enabling daily collection of self-reported symptoms and airway testing from a patient's home. This chapter outlines how various markers of pulmonary health are collected from mobile phones. In particular, discussing the importance of disease specific monitoring and highlighting research studies that employ mobile phones for pulmonary data collection.