COH: Connecting Care

Description

The mobile Connecting Care app includes 2-3 minute automated/scheduled queries and motivational reminders to patients/family members via mobile app to:
- let the health care team know real-time/in the moment symptom reporting
- know what actions they have taken
- motivate them prompting to specific adaptive behaviors and self-correcting
- track and report their progress in real-time to their health providers
- recommend therapeutic options
- provide an accurate understanding of the patient’s situation, over days or weeks, resulting in tailored treatment plans and better outcomes
- gain more accurate data-based understanding of the patient’s situation and make adjustments as needed.

Benefits of EMA+ include:
- real-time partnerships with patients and their health care providers
- track and communicate symptoms over time from where the patient lives and works
- increase use of evidence-based coping strategies
- identify and evaluate effectiveness of interventions
- enhanced quality of life for patients and families
- reduced use of unnecessary hospitalizations, diagnostics and Emergency Room visits
- wiser use of medications especially narcotics

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