title: Rhinitis: adherence to treatment and new technologies.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Nonadherence to treatment is a major issue in approximately 50% of patients suffering from chronic diseases. The availability of new technologies could represent a possible way to improve patients' engagement and adherence in a real-life setting. Research and technology tools made available or in process of being made available to patients with allergic diseases and their physicians could potentially improve the management of these disease in daily life by improving adherence. In this review, we sought to outline many of the recent advances in these technological approaches.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Short Message Service (SMS) reminder, social networks, wearable devices, mobile applications (Apps), monitoring systems of inhaled device use, often presented as 'serious game' are changing the way of approaching to chronic disease, such as rhinitis, management.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Studies of the role played by various technologies in improving adherence to treatment in rhinitis are still limited as compared with other diseases such as asthma, but the results are encouraging. Further studies in this area may lead to the discovery of novel management approaches that is easy to be integrated in patients' daily life.
authors.affiliation: aRespiratory and Allergy Diseases Clinic, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa bRespiratory and Allergy Diseases, Department IRCCS Humanitas Research and Clinical Center-Humanitas University, Rozzano, Milan, Italy cDepartment of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Fulvio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Braido
authors.forename: Ilaria
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Baiardini
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Puggioni
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Garuti
authors.forename: Ruby
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pawankar
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Walter Canonica
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D055118:Medication Adherence; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D012220:Rhinitis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D000068997:Smartphone / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012944:Social Support; D060145:Text Messaging