Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder patients (COPD) are using BlackBerrys to communicate with researchers, it has been reported.
Sufferers of COPD are using the electronic personal organisers to complement call centre solutions as a way of sending clinical researchers reports on their state of health, reports the Canadian Press.
A study led by Neil Johnston at the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health at St Joseph's Healthcare in Ontario is pioneering the method.
Mr Johnston explains that patients with sight problems find the BlackBerry's trackwheel particularly useful as an alternative to a keyboard.
"People tend not to record their symptoms daily, they tend to sort of wait a week and then write them all down at once.
"So it's not a very good method of collecting the data," he said.
Recent research from first direct suggested that there are more now mobile phones than people in the UK, with 70 million mobile sim cards shared between 45 million inhabitants of Britain.
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