eMidCare

Supports patients with psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis

1. About e-MIDCARE®:

The e-MIDCARE mobile application aims to support patients diagnosed with psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis. Its purpose is to support these patients and their professionals in monitoring their disease and treatment.

e-MIDCARE has been developed by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals responsible for caring for patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, including pharmacists, rheumatologists and dermatologists from Hospital Gregorio Marañón.

2. Who is it for:

This application is intended for patients diagnosed with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, such as psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis, followed up at the Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital.

3. Purpose:

The objective of e-MIDCARE is to promote home monitoring and communication with patients diagnosed with psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. In addition to having useful information, patients will be able to record different aspects of their disease and pharmacotherapy, such as their treatment and medication intake, side effects, quality of life, as well as consult their hospital pharmacists.

4. Features:

This platform is made up of a module for patients, which can be accessed through a mobile application, and a module for healthcare professionals, which will allow them to monitor the data recorded by patients.

The sections of the application are the following:

• Reminders: availability of different types of notifications, such as events noted in the Agenda section, taking medication or completing questionnaires.

• My medication: record of the patient's medication plan

• Questionnaires: completion of different types of questionnaires (quality of life, adherence and satisfaction)

• Side effects: recording of the main side effects of the treatment and obtaining recommendations based on their type and severity.

• Useful information: information about the disease and treatment, questions about the dispensing of medicines, links to web pages of interest, etc.

• Agenda: different events or appointments scheduled by users as an agenda/calendar

• Contact your pharmacist: sending and receiving messages between application users and hospital pharmacists

• My profile: it is created at the time of registration in the application. The user can request that it be modified at any time

In the event of detecting any risk or incident derived from the use of this application, the user may communicate it by means of a message through the application module (Contact your pharmacist) or by means of a telephone call to the usual telephone numbers of the Pharmacy Service (915867714 / 914269271).

5. Contents:

e-MIDCARE provides scientific and technical information for educational support for the user. This information is available in the “Useful Information” and “Side Effects” sections. Both sections may be modified or expanded according to the publication of new scientific evidence.

The educational information it contains has been selected by the authors of the project. The authors of the application declare that they have no conflict of interest with the information published.

The information, recommendations and services offered by e-MIDCARE do not replace the usual recommendations and follow-up that the patient performs for his illness.