About Us
Brief Overview
iMHere is a mHealth platform for providing clinician guided self-care to patients with chronic diseases or for real-time assessment/intervention to individuals as they go about their daily lives. The system connects patient apps with a web-based clinician portal over a secure two-way Internet bridge. Clinician customized treatment plans (regimens, assessment/intervention) are remotely delivered to patient smartphones. The smartphone, in turn, delivers reminders to patients to perform self-care routine tasks while gathering information regarding complications and progress from the patient. Information is continuously shared between portal and smartphone, delivering up-to- the-minute correspondence between patient and clinician.
iMHere’s Role
The monitoring and maintenance of chronic diseases requires constant vigilance on the part of the patient. It has been shown that guided self-care can produce remarkably improved outcomes for these types of patients. Traditional face-to-face methods for delivering guided self-care face a number of limitations. The radius of care for a particular clinician is limited to the range that is convenient for patients to travel. Patients with chronic disease may find traveling any distance burdensome. Additionally, overseeing the individualized care plans of multiple patients is a time consuming endeavor without the proper tools. iMHere seeks to overcome these limitations by providing clinicians with a system to remotely deliver and efficiently monitor customized self-care plans to patients, and providing patients with reminders to follow those plans.
What Makes iMHere Unique
What separates iMHere from other self- care reminder apps and web-based portals is its unique communication architecture. iMHere not only connects patient and clinician through care-plans; the system keeps them in continuous “live” contact. Clinician/Patient interaction occurs in real time: new instructions are received by the patient moments after the clinician enters them, and patient responses are immediately available for clinician review. Patients may report problems to their clinician, and the clinician can immediately make adjustments. iMHere forms a continuous, secure, internet based communication bridge, between patient and clinician platforms, that spans any distance. On the patient side there are disease state specific smartphone apps, and on the clinician side there is a web-based portal.
