Smartphone

Telerehabilitation may be an option to train visually impaired older adults to use visual-assistive mobile applications, according to study results published in Optometry and Vision Science.

Smartphone viewing distance was similar among children with and without myopia, with researchers reporting that 60% of variance was attributable to individual differences, according to a study in Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics.

WASHINGTON — In a population of 1,000 adolescents with asthma, most had smartphone and internet access, according to data presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

Patients with asthma managing their disease through a smartphone app had greater improvements in asthma control and quality of life than patients receiving usual care, according to results published in Respiratory Medicine.

An artificial intelligence-enabled smartphone application developed to detect symptoms of stroke accurately evaluated facial asymmetry, arm weakness and speech changes in line with stroke onset, a speaker reported.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Results showed use of a smartphone application after total joint arthroplasty may improve compliance in completion of patient-reported outcome measures compared with other electronic and paper collection methods.

A novel smartphone app was shown to diagnose vestibular stroke symptoms via tracked eye movements in healthy volunteers with an accuracy similar to current clinical standard devices, researchers reported.

Sleep breathing sounds recorded via smartphone yielded a “quite good” prediction of obstructive sleep apnea, according to study results published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

HONOLULU — Video clips of children could assist in screening for obstructive sleep apnea, as this method was nearly as effective in detecting OSA compared with other tools, according to two studies presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

Remote BP monitoring and use of a bilingual phone app improved BP control among more than half of participants with initially uncontrolled hypertension, a speaker reported.