The Philips Company and the Radboud University Medical Center of the Netherlands (RADBOUDUMC) have presented the first 'app' prototype for diabetes that allows more accurate decisions to both accurate both patients and health professionals about clinical and self -care decisions.
This system, which consists of a mobile application for patients and an online community, is revealed as the first to collect and connect data from electronic medical records, various personal health devices (including wireless glucose meters and activity monitors)and data collected by the patients themselves.
Thus, through a smartphone or tablet, the application gives patients continuous access to important parameters such as blood glucose level, insulin consumption or nutrition and provides them with advice both inside and away.
In addition, through the online community, patients and registered health professionals interact through private messages or publications according to the clinical guidelines of a health organization.
In this way, patients receive comments from the health team that attends them using combined data and share experiences in a simple way with other patients, doctors and other health professionals.
The prototype is expected to be developed jointly by Philips, Radboudumc and Salesforce, to be available for evaluation in certain markets before the end of the year.In fact, there are already plans to launch other similar connected care solutions for other chronic diseases.
180 Daily decisions about your health
And it is that diabetes is a "very expensive" chronic chronic disease in terms of human suffering and spending in international health care, since it is estimated that around 400 million people suffer from it worldwide.
On average, diabetes patients make up to 180 daily decisions regarding their health and collect and evaluate useful information about personal and medical factors, from the level of blood glucose to exercise, through decisions related to their diet.
Likewise, the health team of patients with diabetes may be composed of more than 10 types of health professionals.All this makes the self -management of diabetes complex and also very stressful for many.
“I am satisfied to provide diabetes patients with the tools to connect all their relevant health data and devices.Our system allows you to share data and experiences in a community in which they can collaborate with other patients and with their health teams, in a safe environment, ”said the CEO of Healthcare Informatics Solutions and Services of Philips, Jeroen Tas.
That said, the expert has assured that the system has been developed "by patients" and allows "completely integrated" health management and a "new, connected, efficient and highly focused on the patient.
“We want to encourage and support people to take total control of the disease, offering them the appropriate decision tools.This fits our mission in Radboudumc to offer patient -centered participatory health care, ”the Professor of Internal Medicine at Radboudumc, CEES TACK.
In the same line, the director of the Radboudumc Reshape Center has expressedBe "key" to promote a change in the population.
Platform ‘Healthsuite’ and ‘Carecatlyst’ Specifically, the system has been developed on the Healthsuite Digital Digital platform in Philips and its new Carecatlyst.This platform connects devices safely and collects, integrates and analyzes the data of patients with medical devices and connected consumers, electronic medical records and personal health data.
Through this open digital platform, self -edge sources and functions in general can be easily expanded as new digital health measurement technologies for consumers are available.
Carecatalyst is a set of digital tools that allows health systems, institutions and health professionals to use the possibilities of the Healthsuite digital platform in certain specialized solutions.