Dominique Hamerlijnck, a member of the MyAirCoach advisory Patient Forum, has expressed her views and opinions about the life of asthma patients and the solutions that she is looking forward. The article published on the MedTech website, underlines some important difficulties of asthma management and introduces the innovation potential of MyAirCoach from the patients point of view.
For more details please read the pushed article on the website of medtech (Link)
The ERS International congress underlines the importance of personalized medicine with a series of sessions that focus on specific difficulties of respiratory diseases the can be addressed on a personalized framework of healthcare. The MyAirCoach project is aiming in this direction through the use of modern sensing devices and innovative decision support methodologies that will help both patients and doctors to take control of asthma disease.
MyAirCoach project has been featured in the latest online brochure of EU eHealth Projects (Download).
The brochure summarizes the goals of the most current European funded projects in the Field of ICT for health and wellbeing, and reveals the importance of MyAicCoach within the Research and Innovation environment of Europe.
Large-scale modelling of the human respiratory system to allow accurate analysis of the lungs behavior during normal inspiration as well as asthma exacerbations has been enabled through access granted to Greece’s first high-performance computing system called ARIS.
MyAirCoach will be represented in this year’s eHealth Week and participate to the conference's educational programme as it will focus on the themes of Empowering People, Trust & Standards and Social Innovation & Transition.
The introduction of the electronic health records (EHRs) has promised to solve a variety of issues related to the efficiency of the healthcare system as a whole. Unfortunately, several years after the introduction of EHR in modern clinical practice the majority of these promises have gone largely unfulfilled.
MyAirCoach will allow people with asthma like my daughter use a mobile phone to follow their asthma action plan and document accurately their asthma diary.
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has launched the campaign for Healthy Workplaces for All Ages aiming to raise awareness of the importance of good occupational safety and health management throughout the working life and of tailoring work to individual abilities.
The celebration of the world asthma day on March 3rd has given the opportunity to EFA (MyAirCoach partner) to express some important views about the global issues related to the management of asthma and introduce the goals of MyAirCoach project.
A recent report of EFA under the title "HEY YA! HEalth Literacy, Young Patients with Asthma and Adherence to treatment" underlines the problems of medication adherence among young asthma patient taking the first step towards the formulation of a framework for solution of this critical issue of asthma management.