Remote Monitoring to Reduce Asthma Attacks in Children and Young People Aged 5 to 17 Years Using Connected Health Data and Patient Apps

What this Trial Is About

This research aims to evaluate whether healthcare data combined with remotely collected patient data can accurately predict asthma attacks in children and young people aged 5 to 17 years. The study focuses on reducing asthma attacks compared to historic averages by monitoring a whole population of children and young people with asthma. A subgroup at high risk will participate in a detailed study involving remote monitoring. The study uses a new risk stratification system including a clinician dashboard and a patient-facing app. The dashboard allows clinicians to identify individuals at increased risk of asthma attack based on healthcare data and remote monitoring, such as night cough and symptom scores. Identified high-risk patients receive clinical interventions like phone calls or appointments, and may be offered an enhanced app to monitor symptoms, cough, and activity. Participants routine healthcare data will be monitored continuously, with those at high risk contacted for clinical review. Data collected include medication prescriptions, hospital admissions, lung function, and app-generated symptom and cough data. Outcomes measured over six months include the number of asthma attacks, hospitalizations, symptom rates, interventions, and app usage. Data privacy and security are maintained throughout the study, which runs from November 2025 to March 2027.

Remote Monitoring of Asthma in Children and Young People