Dr. Mar Gomis, from the Pharmacy Service of the Sant Pau Hospital and the Pharmacy Research Group of the IIB Sant Pau, has been coordinating a new comprehensive monitoring platform, MedPlan +, which can be applied to any pathology and is ideally aimed at a multi-morbid and polymedicated patient. This platform allows individualized and personalized monitoring of adherence, lifestyles and side effects in real time.
The emergence of new technologies in health has led to many experts talking about their benefits in disease control. On the other hand, the extension among the population of the use of smartphones offers a channel to patients as a tool to help them take medication, to promote self-management of comorbidities and encourage professional-patient interaction. In this sense, Medplant + provides support from the clinical team to the patient at the same time that it empowers him in the daily monitoring of his therapy and illness.
The platform is divided into different modules: an agenda that establishes the patient’s medication plan (with intake schedules, reminders and recommendations); self-monitoring program of comorbidities (such as tension or weight) in a personalized way. Also from the treatment module, it is possible to consult information on the medicine through a link with the medicine database (CIMA) of the Spanish Medicines Agency and visualize all the registers that have been introduced in the evolution module, where the patient will find graphs and tables that will allow him to better control his constants and biomesures. As a more advanced option, the module for interaction with healthcare professionals allows you to communicate with the healthcare team at any time of the day through the application’s own messaging service. In addition, the platform has a new videoconferencing system with an associated agenda to be able to carry out non-presential visits and informative brochures on health prevention within the advice module.
The platform has already demonstrated positive results in transplant patients, significantly improving therapeutic adherence thanks to the possibility of two-way interaction with the professional and the possibility of having a private health area on the mobile phone.
