New York's Mount Sinai Health System is teaming up with a California-based mHealth company to launch an Apple HealthKit-compliant platform for COPD patients and populations.

The COPD Navigator app, developed by LifeMap Solutions in a partnership with Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine and National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute, is part of a larger platform that ties together "smart" inhaler technology and a physician-facing dashboard.

Officials say the pilot program will test the viability of a care platform that links patients and providers through the iPhone to provide real-time care management.

The project will also send secure, anonymized data to Mount Sinai for ongoing research into COPD and other conditions.

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