Think Locally Scale Globally: Helping Asthma sufferers edition

From TechCrunch I discovered this iPhone app that, through opt-in aggregation, helps track regional and even global asthma suffering.

A new iPhone app called AsthmaMDhttp://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.18/theme/silver/palette.gif); background-color: transparent; visibility: visible; width: 14px; height: 12px; background-position: -1128px 0pt; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top; display: inline;" src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.18/t.gif" alt="" />, which was created by am Pejham (a doctor and researcher) and Salim Madjd, aims to help some of those sufferers. The application let’s them keep a diary of attacks, helping them keep records of the severity of attacks, medications used, etc.

But what’s really interesting about AsthmaMD: users can opt in to share this data anonymously with the service. The data is aggregated and will be shared with researchers. The company says that will help doctors and researchers better understand the disease, and may help people know when an attack is more likely.