Mobile apps for IBD self-management using wearable devices and sensors

Smart technology, like wearable sensors or biochips, presents a vast capacity for monitoring vital signs, assess patients' behaviour and context, and simultaneously provide feedback with a significant effect in diagnosis, treatment, and control of diseases. Many chronic disease, in particular Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), patients need to monitor their behaviour and register their disease history (e.g. symptoms, medication intake), as well as collect their physiological data, in order to control the disease, find correlations between their behaviour and the disease progress and help doctors to adjust treatment and promote patients behaviour changes. We have been working in the use of m-health applications by chronic disease patients to facilitate self-management of their diseases and increase their autonomy. We are now studying the use of wearable devices and biochips to automatically collect patients' data and empower them in managing their own health conditions.