In 2014, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation committed to fund a first-of-its-kind study of asthma and air quality in Louisville, KY, in part because the organization wanted to see whether patient-generated data could influence public policy.
The study, which was also funded by the America Lung Association and several local foundations, involved providing hundreds of asthmatic Louisville residents with high-tech sensors for inhalers that track where and when they take their medications.
The results of the study, some of which were published earlier this month in a paper in the medical journal Health Affairs, represent a “strong example of the… Read more »
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