COPD National Action Plan:
Community Action Tool
Discover the progress the COPD community has made toward implementing the goals and objectives in the COPD National Action Plan.

Advancing telemedicine in pulmonology: acoustic-waveform respiratory evaluation (AWARE) via sensing and machine learning on smartphones

Overview

Organization: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Start Date: 05/2024
End Date: Ongoing
Primary Goal: Goal 4: Increase and sustain research to better understand the prevention, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and management of COPD.
Secondary Goal(s):
Objective(s):
  • Help expand, coordinate, and optimize COPD research efforts
Collaboration: Indiana University Indianapolis
Activity Type: Research

Activity Description

There is an important and growing need for tele-health solutions for the diagnosis and management of chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma, COPD, or cystic fibrosis. This proposal will develop a highly innovative, non-invasive, smartphone-based ultrasonic technology to aid in disease diagnosis and in remotely monitoring lung function and airway obstruction.

Audience

General Audience: Researchers
Focused Audience: n/a
Program Reach: National
Type of Area: N/A
Setting: Workplace

Cost and Funding Sources

It was funded through the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and funds to be allotted to grantees.

Impact Analysis

Results of their programs are in progress.

Advice or Lessons Learned

In process.

Contact Information

Sarah Olscamp
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Program Analyst
Bethesda
Maryland