ARIA-EAACI 2025: Person-Centred, Digitally Enabled and Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Change Management in Airway Diseases

J. Bousquet, B. Sousa-Pinto, M. H. Shamji, et al. Clinical and Translational Allergy (2026): e70192, https://doi.org/10.1002/clt2.70192.

ABSTRACT

Person-centred, digitally enabled, AI-assisted care
pathways based on ARIA-EAACI guidelines
using MASK-air as a common tool:
 OECD Best Practice. AI, artificial intelligence;
AIT, allergen immunotherapy;
IPCRG, International Primary Care Respiratory Group;
IPF, International Pharmacist Federation;
OTC, over-the-counter.

Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) was, up until 2017, a guideline using the best evidence (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation, GRADE) and developed as a change management strategy. A second change management strategy—in collaboration with the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (ARIA-EAACI)—was developed as a person-centred, digitally enabled, artificial intelligence-assisted care (person-centred care) with strong political involvement. The digital tools of ARIA are mainly based on MASK-air, an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Best Practice for integrated care for chronic diseases.

Artificial intelligence was used, in particular, to approach the patients' views and expectations. The current paper describes the steps to build and achieve a new change management strategy. The future of the Change Management strategy is (i) a collaboration between ARIA and EAACI, (ii) the development of ARIA 2024-2025 guidelines, (iii) the new ARIA-MeDALL classification of multimorbid airway diseases and (iv) embedding MASK-air in a registry for severe allergic diseases. The ultimate goals of the ARIA-EAACI change management strategy will be (i) the transformation of health and care in rhinitis and asthma multimorbidity and (ii) the development of novel guidelines and policies in a cost-effective manner, improving shared-decision-making.

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