MiCare Path vs SmarTrac Usage & Stats
Voted one of Healthcare Tech Outlook’s Top 10 Patient Monitoring Solutions of 2020. MiCare Path is personalizing peace of mind for the new era of specialty medicine.
Physician prescribed, MiCare Path is the connection between office visits for specialty care patients and their medical support team. Providers will monitor progress utilizing measurements captured by medical tech devices activity trackers, thermometers, blood pressure cuffs and weight scales transmitted through the app. MiCare Path also integrates with personal activity trackers and Apple HealthKit. The MiCare Path app shares daily analytics with care teams via a customized dashboard. Patients can connect directly with care teams through MiCare Path using the messaging feature. Other features include a personalized education library, the ability to track pain and wellness scores, and personalized guided healthcare plans. Together with healthcare providers, MiCare Path is here to help patients achieve long and short-term goals for better health.
CONNECTED DEVICES
MiCare Path is a mobile health (mHealth) remote patient monitoring (RPM) application prescribed by participating specialty healthcare providers and clinics. This application supports data collected from cellular and Bluetooth approved devices, as well as Apple HealthKit.
Depending on your care path, your provider may ask that you connect various devices, such as an activity tracker, blood pressure cuff and/or a weight scale to your device. You will receive alerts reminding you to use your devices as prescribed by your physician.
PATIENT CARE PATH
Your care path will be prescribed by your physician. This may include taking daily temperature, blood pressure, daily weight and/or tracking activity through your activity tracker or personal device. For Bluetooth devices, the app will need to be opened to sync with the device each time it is used. For cellular devices, the information is transmitted instantly. Surveys and education may also be assigned by your physician through your app. These results will be shared and reviewed by your care team in real-time.
VITAL RESULTS
The app will share your vitals at a frequency defined by your physician via your personalized dashboard. View your progress under your profile section on your app.
MESSAGING YOUR CARE TEAM
You will be able to exchange secure conversations with your healthcare provider using the messaging feature.
REQUESTING APPOINTMENTS
Please continue to request appointments with your healthcare provider directly unless otherwise noted within your two-way connection discussion.
Disclaimer: This application should not be used to make medical decisions without consulting with a physician.
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SmarTrac is an electronic goniometer that enables practitioners to digitally collect and assess range of motion measurements for physical exercises being done by a patient. Typically these physical exercises are assigned by a practitioner as part of a patient’s home exercise program (HEP). The range of motion measurement information available through SmarTrac practitioners better evaluate effectiveness of the assigned HEP.
In addition to tracking the range of motion measurements, SmarTrac also allows a patient to manually enter a “pain level”, which is a subjective score provided by the patient. This pain level information is the personal rating of the degree of pain experienced by the patient while performing the exercises. Similarly, SmarTrac does not itself assess patients’ quality of life improvement scores, instead it simply provides a platform to share their quality of life improvement or lack thereof, from their perspective, with the practitioner. And finally, there is a video library that patients can refer to if they forget how a certain HEP exercise is performed. The video library is simply a resource that helps patients recall how an exercise should be done.
To summarize, SmarTrac enables practitioners to monitor various forms of objective and subjective data as patients carry out assigned exercises. Objective data collected by SmarTrac includes the specific exercises performed by the patient and the number of repetitions the patient completed, along with the range of motion achieved during each repetition. Subjective data is only inputted by the patient. Here a patient provides personal feedback on how they personally rate their own pain and how they perceive their quality of life to be at that moment in time. An example regarding quality of life survey would be the DASH report, which is given to patients following shoulder surgery by their practitioner. The DASH survey asks patients to rate their perceived quality of life on matters such as: can they open a jar, can they brush their teeth, can they put on a shirt, etc. The practitioner, by assessing both objective and subjective data points, is better positioned to evaluate effectiveness of the HEP.
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Any result presented in this app should not be used for medical purposes, users should always consult a physician or a certified therapist for treatments and medical decisions.
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MiCare Path VS. 
SmarTracDecember 12, 2024