Sensor-based inhalers integrated into health care providers' clinical workflows may help improve medication adherence and support children with asthma - and their families - to more effectively manage this condition, according to a new Northwestern and Lurie Children's study published in Pediatrics.; "Emerging connected technologies can help improve patient health, with this randomized-controlled clinical trial showing that pediatric asthma patients with access to inhaler sensors report better asthma control and quality of life than patients who only received a standardized asthma education curriculum," said study lead Dr. Ruchi Gupta, professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and the Director of the Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research (CFAAR).