Mobile health monitoring

We are funding the development of medical devices using mobile communications to monitor asthma and cystic fibrosis patients remotely.

Trials with asthma patients have already proved that many more patients monitored their breathing regularly this way compared with conventional methods. The cystic fibrosis trial is under way and results will be available at the end of 2005. We are also working with the British Lung Foundation which has commissioned a study to explore the attitudes of medical professionals and patients to the benefits of mobile communications to remote asthma monitoring. These results are due in 2006.