A remote monitoring technique known as Video Directly Observed Therapy has been launched by the Baltimore-based organization LifeBridge Health. The technique has been developed to improve pediatric asthma patients’ inhaler technique and adherence
The 60-day program is being launched by LifeBridge through a partnership with Emocha, a smartphone app developer company that uses John Hopkins created software, which enables patients to submit daily check-in videos showing how their prescribed medications were taken.
The LifeBridge program will enable care teams to review videos of patients using inhalers. The caregivers can offer recommendations on how the inhalers are supposedly to be used, minimising the risks of side effects.
Scott Krugman, MD, vice chair of pediatrics at the Herman & Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital at Sinai stated that they believe in pioneering innovations to enhance patient care. In a release, he explained that his company developed this technology-enabled service to help children with asthma take their medication as prescribed, and also receive additional support throughout their treatment.
