In addition, the IBD nurse Birgitta Håkansson, participating in the program, stated that she felt that patients were more involved in their care (Figure 2). After a few months of usage, 80% of the patients would recommend IBD Home to other patients in their situation. For most of them, IBD Home provides increased flexibility and security as they do not have to go to the lab and get their results immediately (Figure 1). The response from patients was unequivocally positive. Within a few months, they were able to recruit about 70 patients to the program and completed an evaluation using surveys for the patients and the healthcare professionals. Goran hospital wanted to implement this solution in their gastroenterology department. This national program is in use all over the country and is available to any IBD patient in Sweden. This solution, called IBD Home, allows the results to be shared with the healthcare professional through SWIBREG, the national quality register for IBD. Goran hospital evaluation and Västra Götaland region evaluation.īack in 2017, Telia Company, a Swedish telecommunication provider, created an integrated solution for the patients in partnership with BÜHLMANN: an application allowing them to answer quality of life questionnaires, doing fecal calprotectin tests at home using IB Doc ® and an easy logistic system having IB Doc ® tests available at the nearest possible pharmacy. The evaluations are in Swedish and below is a summary of the original articles: Capio St. In this post, we are presenting two evaluations of the IBD Home solution. One country has been pioneering the benefits of this solution for the patients and the healthcare professionals early on: Sweden. With the rise of many different electronic systems, there is a clear benefit of such an integration tool, avoiding healthcare professionals having to interact with multiple dashboards and tools.
For the healthcare professionals, it means that all the results provided by this application are available in one spot. With all these features, a patient can be followed for a long period of time and without the need to come to the hospital if it is not needed.
For instance, a unique application can be used to answer Quality of Life (QoL) questionnaires, messaging to healthcare professionals and perform fecal calprotectin tests at home. In disease management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) by healthcare professionals, this API allows for comprehensive remote monitoring including biomarker measurements by using only one patient application. All of these papers are evaluating IB Doc ® as a stand-alone product but IB Doc ® has the possibility to be integrated in a 3 rd party application, thanks to its Application Programming Interface (API). IB Doc ® is present in the market for 6 years now and its efficiency and usefulness has been described many times by different research teams all over the world (1, 2, 3).
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