New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital and Open Health Network are collaborating for a blockchain-based healthcare platform for patients suffering from Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Called GRItT-Pro, it is a digital replacement of a manual system implemented by Mount Sinai to enable co-ordination within teams treating patients with IBD.
Mount Sinai was one of the early hospitals to explore blockchain when it set up the Center for Biomedical Blockchain Research two years ago.
The manual system currently used, Gaining Resilience through Transitions (GRItTTM), provides a customized care plan. The plan is developed by practitioners from medical, nursing, pharmacy, social, child life, nutritional and psychological disciplines. The goal is to increase the resilience of patients through different tools and prevent a flare up related to IBD.
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