Understand respiratory symptoms and function beyond clinic visits
See how breathlessness, cough, exacerbations, activity, sleep, and treatment experience change day to day in asthma, COPD, and other respiratory conditions, including environmental triggers.
Respiratory disease burden happens between visits
Symptoms shift with season, air quality, infections, and adherence, and many exacerbations are managed at home and never fully recorded.
The gap
What today's data miss
- How exacerbations build, peak, and resolve between visits
- How activity, sleep, and breathlessness change around a flare
- How controller and rescue medication are used in daily life
- Who stays uncontrolled despite treatment, and why
Open questions
What life sciences teams are asking
- What does an exacerbation look like before it's treated?
- How quickly do activity, sleep, and symptoms recover?
- How do air quality, pollen, and temperature relate to flares?
- Who may be a candidate for escalation, and what holds them back?
Our approach
Respiratory disease in daily life
- Longitudinal tracking of symptoms, exacerbations, and recovery
- Wearable signals alongside ACT and CAT questionnaires
- Event-triggered surveys at flares or unscheduled care
- Linkage to local weather and air-quality data
Data for a better understanding of respiratory conditions
Continuous, direct engagement captures longitudinal data across symptoms, behavior, and environment.
- Age, sex, gender identity, race and ethnicity
- Income, education, employment, household
- Insurance, out-of-pocket costs, affordability
- Access barriers: transportation, food, care
- Daily breathlessness, cough, wheeze, sleep disruption
- Validated instruments (ACT, CAT, mMRC)
- Exacerbations and recovery in near real time
- Activity, sleep, and resting heart rate
- Work, exercise tolerance, and daily function
- Controller and rescue-inhaler use
- Medication history, persistence, adherence
- Switching, escalation, and reported response
- Inhaler technique, side effects, burden
- Air quality (PM2.5, ozone) by location and date
- Temperature, humidity, and seasonality
- Infection seasons and community illness
- Differences in control and exacerbation frequency
- Variability in response and recovery
- Impact on quality of life and function
- Diagnoses, comorbidities, spirometry or labs (EHR)
- Emergency visits, hospitalizations, specialists
- Healthcare utilization across settings
- Exacerbation patterns and recovery
- Functional impact and quality of life
- Long-term control and persistence
Inside a respiratory study
How a top pharma company assembled a large asthma cohort on schedule.
Study design
Question
Can a large, well-characterized asthma cohort be assembled fast enough to keep a program on schedule?
Design
Targeted in-app outreach, digital eligibility screening, and eConsent.
Data
Screening survey, symptom-control questionnaire, and wearable data where shared.
Outcome
About 14,000 eligible, consented participants enrolled within one week.
Real-world insights in respiratory health
Research, webinars, and news from our work with people living with respiratory conditions.
Let's design your next study
Tell us the question you need to answer. Our scientists will show you which cohorts, data types, and study designs can get you there, and how quickly.