COH: Connecting Care

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 ConnectCare 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