Ashish Atreja, a gastroenterologist
and assistant professor of medicine at Mount Sinai, has worked with
Mount Sinai's AppLab to develop an app for the treatment of inflammatory
bowel disease (IBD). In an interview, he described
it as a continuous engagement model that can help the hospital's
physicians keep a "finger on the pulse" of each patient suffering from
IBD--9,000 patients across Mount Sinai's seven hospitals. Mount Sinai
has started to apply the IBD app model--a structured
approach to symptom tracking that is linked to decision management--to
other chronic diseases, such as migraine headaches, rheumatoid arthritis
and heart failure.
In a separate development, an
app was created to allow the physicians in the Mount Sinai Doctors
Faculty Practice to offer consultations using a secure digital
connection via smartphones.
Patients can schedule a virtual visit and discuss a health problem via mobile device.
Patients can schedule a virtual visit and discuss a health problem via mobile device.
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