Impact of Digital Health Monitoring in the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

ABSTRACT: Technological advances now permit self-management strategies using mobile applications which could greatly benefit patient care. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the use of the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) digital health monitoring platform, HealthPROMISE, leads to better quality of care and improved health outcomes in IBD patients. IBD patients were recruited in gastroenterology clinics and asked to install the HealthPROMISE application onto their smartphones. Patient satisfaction, quality of care, quality of life, patient symptoms, and resource utilization metrics were collected throughout the study and sent directly to their healthcare teams. Patients with abnormal symptom/SIBDQ scores were flagged for their physicians to follow up. After one-year, patient outcom

SUBMITTER: Zhen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7808932 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature