Asthma is personal for Tyler Bershad.
“Like 26 million Americans, I have asthma,” said Bershad, an MBA candidate in business administration at Cornell Tech, during the 2023 Health Hackathon in February. “Asthma is the most prevalent chronic respiratory disease in humans and, unfortunately, those who are most vulnerable are children.”
Bershad knows first-hand the reality that many pediatric asthma patients don’t always know how to communicate their symptoms to their parents or providers. This problem led him and his Hackathon team – named “Mixed Bag” – to create an innovative solution in the form of AiroCare, a smart monitoring device for asthmatic symptoms. It attaches directly to a nebulizer, collecting data on lung performance in real time before sending it to an app that a physician can easily access. Mixed Bag presented AiroCare to a panel of judges…
