Innovative Technologies for Asthma and COPD Management in the Community: Scanning the Horizon Using Rapid Systematic Review Methods

This rapid systematic review and horizon scan aimed to identify technologies available or in development to support the monitoring and self-management of asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) outside traditional healthcare settings in England.

Literature searches targeted systematic reviews from 2020 to 2023 and employed complementary horizon scanning methods to gather data on identified technologies and potentially discover new ones. The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations framework assessed the certainty of evidence for each technology. Sources included medical databases, trial registries, company websites and app stores. Eligible technologies were those used for asthma or COPD, designed for out-of-clinic use, capable of self-monitoring or early exacerbation identification, portable and using artificial intelligence or remote monitoring features.