title: Real‐world data using mHealth apps in rhinitis, rhinosinusitis and their multimorbidities
Creators: name: Sousa‐Pinto, Bernardo
name: Anto, Aram
name: Berger, Markus
name: Dramburg, Stephanie
name: Pfaar, Oliver
name: Klimek, Ludger
name: Jutel, Marek
name: Czarlewski, Wienczyslawa
name: Bedbrook, Anna
name: Valiulis, Arunas
name: Agache, Ioana
name: Amaral, Rita
name: Ansotegui, Ignacio J.
name: Bastl, Katharina
name: Berger, Uwe
name: Bergmann, Karl C.
name: Bosnic‐Anticevich, Sinthia
name: Braido, Fulvio
name: Brussino, Luisa
name: Cardona, Victoria
name: Casale, Thomas
name: Canonica, G. Walter
name: Cecchi, Lorenzo
name: Charpin, Denis
name: Chivato, Tomás
name: Chu, Derek K.
name: Cingi, Cemal
name: Costa, Elisio M.
name: Cruz, Alvaro A.
name: Devillier, Philippe
name: Durham, Stephen R.
name: Ebisawa, Motohiro
name: Fiocchi, Alessandro
name: Fokkens, Wytske J.
name: Gemicioğlu, Bilun
name: Gotua, Maia
name: Guzmán, Maria‐Antonieta
name: Haahtela, Tari
name: Ivancevich, Juan Carlos
name: Kuna, Piotr
name: Kaidashev, Igor
name: Khaitov, Musa
name: Kvedariene, Violeta
name: Larenas‐Linnemann, Désirée E.
name: Lipworth, Brian
name: Laune, Daniel
name: Matricardi, Paolo M.
name: Morais‐Almeida, Mario
name: Mullol, Joaquim
name: Naclerio, Robert
name: Neffen, Hugo
name: Nekam, Kristoff
name: Niedoszytko, Marek
name: Okamoto, Yoshitaka
name: Papadopoulos, Nikolaos G.
name: Park, Hae‐Sim
name: Passalacqua, Giovanni
name: Patella, Vincenzo
name: Pelosi, Simone
name: Pham‐Thi, Nhân
name: Popov, Ted A.
name: Regateiro, Frederico S.
name: Reitsma, Sietze
name: Rodriguez‐Gonzales, Monica
name: Rosario, Nelson
name: Rouadi, Philip W.
name: Samolinski, Boleslaw
name: Sá‐Sousa, Ana
name: Sastre, Joaquin
name: Sheikh, Aziz
name: Ulrik, Charlotte Suppli
name: Taborda‐Barata, Luis
name: Todo‐Bom, Ana
name: Tomazic, Peter Valentin
name: Toppila‐Salmi, Sanna
name: Tripodi, Salvatore
name: Tsiligianni, Ioanna
name: Valovirta, Erkka
name: Ventura, Maria Teresa
name: Valero, Antonio A.
name: Vieira, Rafael José
name: Wallace, Dana
name: Waserman, Susan
name: Williams, Sian
name: Yorgancioglu, Arzu
name: Zhang, Luo
name: Zidarn, Mihaela
name: Zuberbier, Jaron
name: Olze, Heidi
name: Antó, Josep M.
name: Zuberbier, Torsten
name: Fonseca, João A.
name: Bousquet, Jean
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: allergic rhinitis
subject: app
subject: chronic rhinosinusitis
subject: mHealth
classificationCode: 610
subject: Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Digital health is an umbrella term which encompasses eHealth and benefits from areas such as advanced computer sciences. eHealth includes mHealth apps, which offer the potential to redesign aspects of healthcare delivery. The capacity of apps to collect large amounts of longitudinal, real-time, real-world data enables the progression of biomedical knowledge. Apps for rhinitis and rhinosinusitis were searched for in the Google Play and Apple App stores, via an automatic market research tool recently developed using JavaScript. Over 1500 apps for allergic rhinitis and rhinosinusitis were identified, some dealing with multimorbidity. However, only six apps for rhinitis (AirRater, AllergyMonitor, AllerSearch, Husteblume, MASK-air and Pollen App) and one for rhinosinusitis (Galenus Health) have so far published results in the scientific literature. These apps were reviewed for their validation, discovery of novel allergy phenotypes, optimisation of identifying the pollen season, novel approaches in diagnosis and management (pharmacotherapy and allergen immunotherapy) as well as adherence to treatment. Published evidence demonstrates the potential of mobile health apps to advance in the characterisation, diagnosis and management of rhinitis and rhinosinusitis patients.