LifeMap Solutions posted data on ResearchKit’s blog about its Asthma Health app, part of a group of apps it’s developed with Mount Sinai Hospital to support patients with respiratory conditions. The data demonstrated a boost in patient engagement when push notifications were sent to patients.
Apple developed ResearchKit as a way for doctors and scientists to gather health and medical research data more frequently and more accurately from participants using iPhone apps.
The company, a spin-off of LifeMap Sciences, noted that preliminary data for Asthma Health showed that more than half of users “not only complete the e-consent process, they also come back the very next day to use the app. This is a very high rate of return for any app, let alone a health-related app.”
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The goal of the study was to get more insight into asthma triggers and help participants manage their condition by avoiding areas where air quality could aggravate their symptoms, according to the blog entry.
LifeMap also observed: “The spikes in app usage are consistent with the type of behavior we see in mobile apps more broadly: users respond dramatically to regular reminders.”
A little less encouraging is what appears to be a decline in usage from the start of the study in March through April. That remains an enormous challenge for app developers to surmount, particularly for people with chronic conditions.
