Inhaler monitoring specialist Asthmapolis has announced that the company has changed its name to Propeller Health. The company said that the name change reflects a widening focus that includes products for inhaled COPD medications as well as asthma medications and that Propeller plans to offer additional asthma and COPD mobile apps and additional snap-on inhaler sensors under the new name.
CEO and co-founder David Van Sickle explained, “Over the last year, we’ve grown to be the leading mobile health platform for managing asthma. Today we are charting a new course in chronic respiratory disease management, applying our proven technology and accumulated wisdom to reduce healthcare utilization for COPD. The Propeller brand broadens our mobile health footprint to include all disease treated with inhaled medications. It more accurately describes how we use technology to achieve momentum in self-management, but with minimal disruption to our users’ daily lives, which in turn helps improve outcomes that reduce cost.”
According to the company, “In the last month, more than two-thirds of Propeller users with asthma were well-controlled or transitioned to well-controlled; by comparison, only 30-40 percent of the general population with asthma has their disease under control. In recent programs, up to 80 percent of patients with asthma remain engaged with Propeller three to six months after enrollment. As a result, the Propeller platform has yielded an 80 percent improvement in medication adherence.”
Read the Propeller Health press release.
