Digital Coaching Using Smart Inhaler Technology to Improve Asthma Management in Patients With Asthma in Italy: Community-Based Study

Gabriele Rumi   ¹ , MD ;   G Walter Canonica   ² , MD ;   Juliet M Foster   ³ , PhD ;   Niels H Chavannes   ⁴ , PhD ;   Giuseppe Valenti   ⁵ , MD ;   Rosario Contiguglia   ⁶ , MD ;   Eleni Rapsomaniki   ⁷ , PhD ;   Janwillem W H Kocks   ⁸ , PhD ;   Dario De Brasi   ⁹ , MD ;   Fulvio Braido   ¹⁰ , MD

¹ Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Medicina Interna, Rome, Italy

² Personalized Medicine Asthma & Allergy Clinic-Humanitas University & Research Hospital, IRCCS, Milan, Italy

³ Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

⁴ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

⁵ PTA Biondo ASP Palermo, Palermo, Italy

⁶ Personalized Medicine Clinic of Respiratory Diseases, Messina, Italy

⁷ BioPharmaceuticals Medical, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom

⁸ General Practitioners Research Institute, Groningen, Netherlands

⁹ ASL Napoli 2 Nord, Naples, Italy

¹⁰ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy