Use of a mobile/portable computing device to assist in management strategies and to increase patient and caregiver awareness in asthmatics

• Main Author: Low, Siew Teong.
• Other Authors: Lun, Kwok Chan
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer applications::Life and medical sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/2381
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study investigates the use of a mobile / portable computing device (Palm OS based PDA) together with a specially written application ('AsthmAware') to assist in management strategies in asthmatic patients and to improve patient and caregiver awareness of the medical condition. Most of...