LifeMap Solutions' App COPD Navigator is Available in the App Store

BioTime Inc.’s (NYSE MKT and TASE:BTX) digital-health subsidiary LifeMap Solutions has announced that its HealthKit-compliant iOS app COPD Navigator is available for download in the App Store.
According to the press release:

Developed in close partnership with researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and leading pulmonologists from the Mount Sinai – National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute, the app empowers patients diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) to better monitor and manage their condition. An enhanced version branded as SuperCare iBreathe will be clinically deployed by SuperCare Health, a chronic care management company specializing in respiratory diseases. The iBreathe app is customized with unique data collection points and allows SuperCare Health’s clinical care team to track them in real time and respond immediately to COPD patients enrolled in their Healthcare at Home program. This marks the first commercial revenue by LifeMap Solutions. Financial details were not disclosed.
“LifeMap Solutions is dedicated to building mobile health (or mHealth) apps that positively, powerfully affect patients’ quality of life,” said Corey Bridges, CEO of LifeMap Solutions. “We’ve built our first two apps to help sufferers of asthma and COPD, and we’re working to expand our impact across a wider range of chronic conditions. With COPD Navigator, we’re aiming not only to empower patients to manage their own health more easily, but also to engage more deeply with their care providers. We believe that the key to this is COPD Navigator’s summary screens for patients’ health data. Just as happened with the Doctor Dashboard feature in our Asthma Health app, patients will show COPD Navigator to their doctors and initiate data-driven conversations. And through our partner SuperCare Health, we’re gratified to deploy our technology directly into a patient-care setting.”
The app leverages evidence-based care guidelines, behavioral science, and patient data to improve patient adherence with the goal of achieving better health outcomes at lower cost. COPD Navigator users receive real-time local weather and air quality alerts, medication reminders, and tools to track their symptoms in order to more quickly recognize COPD exacerbations, in which their lung condition suddenly worsens. COPD Navigator also empowers patients to easily share this information with their healthcare teams. This gives patients the flexibility to address exacerbations at home under their doctor’s guidance and potentially prevent an expensive medical emergency.

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