According to Nexus6, a study conducted in New Zealand has shown that 84% of children using the Smartinhaler SmartTrack device, which provides both audio and visual reminders, used their inhalers as prescribed compared to 30% using MDIs without an audio reminder. Fewer than 10% of the children using SmartTrack required rescue medication compared to more than 17% of the children in the control group.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Auckland, involved 220 children aged 6 to 15 who either used a SmartTracker or a device without audio reminders for their controller medications. The children also had a Smartinhaler device, which uploads actual usage data, for their rescue inhalers, allowing researchers to track how often they used those devices.
Nexus6 Chairman Doug Wilson said, “If these results were from use of a new medication, that would be the blockbuster medication of the decade. How often have asthma patients struggled with their disease, when the solution is so simple?”
Read the Nexus6 press release.
