Evaluation and Usage Analysis of IBD Tool: A Telemonitoring Platform for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Caterina Lia, Matteo Bonina, Marco Daperno, Valeria Figini, Flavio Martinez De Carnero, Guido Pagana

2022

Abstract

Telemedicine brings numerous benefits to healthcare as a support to traditional medicine. On this basis, IBD Tool was developed. It consists of a web-app through which some of the patients suffering from Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) of the Mauriziano Hospital of Turin are followed. Thanks to IBD Tool, physicians can follow the evolution of the disease over time, having the ability to identify periods of remission and relapse and to reduce hospitalization’s frequency of patients. Furthermore, IBD Tool is a powerful tool also for patients, who thanks to the web-app are always in close contact with the healthcare staff and do not feel neglected in the months that normally elapse between a visit and the other. In this first year of use of the platform, telemedicine has proved to be a valid support for the treatment of chronic intestinal diseases, providing clinicians a versatile telemonitoring tool. Considering the current health situation, it is increasingly evident that the health system cannot ignore telemedicine. In this study, we have investigated the results collected in this first period of use of the platform, monitoring the activity state of the web-app and patients’ evaluations about the tool.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lia C., Bonina M., Daperno M., Figini V., Martinez De Carnero F. and Pagana G. (2022). Evaluation and Usage Analysis of IBD Tool: A Telemonitoring Platform for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE, ISBN 978-989-758-566-1, pages 186-195. DOI: 10.5220/0010986600003188

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ict4awe22,
author={Caterina Lia and Matteo Bonina and Marco Daperno and Valeria Figini and Flavio Martinez De Carnero and Guido Pagana},
title={Evaluation and Usage Analysis of IBD Tool: A Telemonitoring Platform for Inflammatory Bowel Disease},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,},
year={2022},
pages={186-195},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010986600003188},
isbn={978-989-758-566-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,
TI - Evaluation and Usage Analysis of IBD Tool: A Telemonitoring Platform for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
SN - 978-989-758-566-1
AU - Lia C.
AU - Bonina M.
AU - Daperno M.
AU - Figini V.
AU - Martinez De Carnero F.
AU - Pagana G.
PY - 2022
SP - 186
EP - 195
DO - 10.5220/0010986600003188