For some years now, the Cupertino technology giant has paid special attention to the health field, developing CareKit, an API for developers to create applications that, in one way or another, help to improve the fields of health, medicine, research, care for patients with chronic diseases and much more.
It is in this last sector that precisely the news that we bring you today is framed because it is about care mapa app developed by Boston Children's Hospital (the children's hospital in Boston, United States) under the CareKit umbrella (the api created to improve patient care) that allows sharing pediatric data of children with special medical needs.
CareMap, a great help for parents, caregivers, children, doctors
A new application owned by Children's Hospital in Boston (United States) and developed in collaboration with Duke University, makes use of Apple's CareKit api and promises simplify the monitoring, collection, analysis and distribution of medical data of boys and girls with special medical needs.
The new application in question has received the title of care map, and its main function is to allow and make it easier for caregivers to quickly and safely store medical information which is vital, as well as being able share it easily and quickly not only with the patient's usual medical condition, but also with other medical professionals, either within a broader framework of long-term care, or in specific moments of urgency.
But in addition to data related to diagnostics, the CareMap application also allows track other health parameters, which facilitates an analysis of long-term trends for the patient and therefore, help in their care and treatment.
Caremap is an application developed by Boston Children's Hospital and Duke University from Apple's CareKit api that allows sharing medical data of children with special medical needs
CareMap is the help parents need
CareMap is proving to be a very useful tool for families of these little ones who have special medical needs, as witnessed by an employee of the Apple Insider website, who has a child with complex medical needs and after a short evaluation period has stated that the app can easily replace a "hundred page notebook" that you have had to carry from appointment to appointment for the past decade.
Parents who use the Caremap app can provide critical and vital information such as, for example, those relating to any type of allergy, the need to have certain medical equipment available for long periods of time, medications that have been prescribed, previously required emergency actions ... And all of this simply showing it in the app or sending a snapshot in PDF via email.
Every day, families can record data and information regarding physical activity, mood, seizure frequency, pain, and sleep, as well as add personalized metrics such as school attendance, mood disturbances. , etc. All this collected data can be visualized in graphs and share with graphing and sharing with others using the CareKit Connect module.
The data is stored locally on the device itself and although at the moment it is only possible to track a single patient in the app, the developers say they are working to be able to monitor several children from a single application.
According to David Y. Ming, CareMap Clinical Advisor and Director of Duke Children's Complex Care Service, "Caremap's priority is not only organizing relevant clinical details, but also highlighting the overall goals of care.".
The data is stored in the application, locally on the device. Currently, it is only possible to track one child in the app, but the developers say they are working on the ability to track multiple patients.