Towards Asthma SelfManagement: An Integrated Ontology Model for Asthma Action Plan Asthma is a chronic disease that cannot be cured but however it can be managed. There are different ways for Asthma management and the Asthma Action Plan is one of the selfmanagement methods used for managing and monitoring a patientu0027s condition. In this paper, we use an ontologybased method to identify and classify Asthma Action Plan terminologies and integrate respective models with demographics of asthma patients for the purpose of personalisation. We propose a personalised Asthma Patients Profile Model and integrate it with an Action Plan Model and Asthma Disease Model. These can be subsequently used for the development of software applications integrating patient records and contextual data from wearables and sensors, in order to provide personalised disease management plans per patient.

Heterogeneity in Asthma Medication Adherence Measurement Medication nonadherence is strongly associated with poor asthma control and outcomes. Many studies use an aggregate measure of adherence, such as the percentage of prescribed doses that were taken, however this conceals variation between patientsu0027 medicationtaking routines. Electronic monitoring devices, which precisely record the date and time of a dose being actuated from an inhaler, provide the means to objectively and remotely monitor adherence behavior patterns. This secondary analysis of a New Zealand audiovisual medication reminder intervention study visually explored the relationships, variation, and heterogeneity between multiple measures of adherence, in 211 children aged 615 years old who presented to an emergency department with an asthma attack. Our findings highlight the weakness of statistical relationships between measures of adherence, and the irregularity in patient medicationtaking behavior. This demonstrates that a single aggregate adherence measure fails to detect asthma patients for whom their daytoday medication taking (implementation) is inconsistent with their longitudinal medication taking (persistence).