Healthcare IT

Biography

Biography: Robert N Jamison

Abstract

There has been a rise in interest in remote monitoring of pain and use of mobile health (mHealth) technology designed to support individuals in making lifestyle changes needed to improve pain management. Consumer demand for remote assessment programs, health ‘apps’ and sensors has far outpaced the science needed to understand their benefits and impact. For persons with chronic pain and providers who treatment them, mobile apps and activity monitors can help encourage behavioral changes including symptom monitoring, education, reinforcement of positive behaviors, and as tools to enhance patient-provider communication. Dr. Jamison will review the literature on the use of web-based electronic pain assessment programs, smartphone pain apps, activity monitors, and telemedicine to help manage pain patients’ conditions remotely and that have the potential to decrease healthcare utilization. He will detail the content, face validity, reliability, usability, expense, and technical issues associated with the use of mHealth technology. He will also present recently completed studies that highlight the role of pain apps and artificial intelligence in clinical pain centers and describe findings from studies on the effects of a remote electronic pain assessment program and use of teletherapy in pain medicine. He will illustrate how automated engagement incorporated into clinical care holds significant promise to solving problems of tracking patients remotely without disrupting clinical care. He will present how the future of healthcare and managing costs will require new approaches to engage the patient. This session will help to demonstrate how leveraging existing technologies holds significant promise to maintain effective communication with patients between visits while tracking and educated patients with real world decision-making that positively impacts healthcare.