Manage your child's health care with the Caremap app

Unlike ResearchKit, Apple’s initiative to improve patient data collection for medical researchers, the CareKit it was created so that patients themselves have control and access to their data and can, if they wish, share it with their doctors.

Perhaps due to the difference in focus, apps made with ResearchKit are being received little by users, while CareKit apps seem to help users in their day-to-day life, going beyond collection. Using CareKit, Duke University joined Boston Children's Hospital to create the app Caremap.


Caremap app icon - navigate your child's healthcare

This app is focused on children with illnesses who need atenodiria. Parents or caregivers make a profile of the child and then they can popularize the app with necessary information such as diseases, allergies, medications used, medical procedures (surgery, hospitalization) and more.

In the daily panorama, there is some information that you may want to collect, for example, pain, mood, sleep, exercise, nutrition, weight, seizures, in addition to creating new ones and choosing the types of answers (“yes” or “no” ”, Text block, numeric or from 1 to 10). Once you have filled in all the necessary items, the heart that shows you the daily activities will be full, indicating that all data collection tasks for that day have been done that step works as a check list, so you don't forget to check anything about your little one's health.

On the flap "Insights"It is possible to check weekly graphs with the information acquired so far, which is a practical way to know if your child's health is improving, getting worse or staying stable. All data can be shared with other people, be it parent, mother, caregiver or doctors.

Managing communication effectively between multiple caregivers for a child with complex health problems can be a full-time job for parents. so much effort is put into the smallest details that the overall view is sometimes ignored. Caremap's priority is not only to organize relevant clinical details, but also to highlight the overall goals of treatment.

David Y. Ming, MD., Caremap's clinical advisor and director of the Duke Children's Complex Health Care Service.

The application saves all information locally, on the device. For now, it is only possible to register a child in the application, but the developers say they will soon change this to accept several patients.

The app already helps a lot of people who need to accompany their child daily, since they do not always have to load pages for medical consultations and more pages of daily reports. In addition, if the child is older, they can use the app themselves to fill in the information.

Caremap is available for free on the App Store, for devices running iOS 9.3 or higher.

via AppleInsider