The first health application for children with asthma is called 'Kids Beating Asthma', and At the moment it can be run on iPad and iPhon devicese, although development on other platforms is already underway.
It has been developed by the Innovation Unit of the Sanitary Research Institute of the San Carlos Clinical Hospital, together with the Pediatric Service of the same center. Nowadays, and thanks to the various communication media, patients can manage their health with relative comfort. With 'Kids Beating asthma', the children who suffer from this respiratory disease will have a great help to know it.
The application has educational material adapted for children and adolescents, divided into 5 content modules, in English and Spanish.
As a reinforcement strategy in learning it is used gamification, allowing the application to differentiate itself from other similar initiatives.
Thus, puzzles, crosswords and other games such as word searches and pictograms are combined. Asmín and Asmina are the avatars that guide the child through this fun adventure that helps to know Childhood Asthma: what it is, why it originates, how to live with it, and much more.
In short, it is a training project for patients and families, which allows easy access to the knowledge they need in order to know the disease.
It is also very useful for recognizing more frequent symptoms, and this provides a lot of information to be able to make decisions at critical moments.
Congratulations to the professionals who have developed this app, and congratulations to the MediaNet Software company for collaborating with the Innovation Unit of the San Carlos Clinic. A great work that combines technology with help in health issues, and that will be very useful to many affected families.
