Brain Injury

Technology (e.g. robotics, assistive technology, mHealth)

Health Services Research

Symposium

(603272) An Application Based Intervention improves FIM and Return to Community from an Acute Rehabilitation Setting

Presenter(s)

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  Matthew Bartels, MD, MPH

  Chairman
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  Bronx, New York
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  Justin Hill, MD

  Assistant Professor
  Albert EInstein College of Medicine
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  Janet Herbold, MS, PT, PhD

  Vice President
  Burke Rehabilitation Hospital
  White Plains, New York

Using an applicatoin based solutoin in an acute rehablitaiotn setting can improve outcomes and understanding for pateints and families. The presentation will discuss the challenges identified, the method ovf using the applicatoin for adressing the need, and the outcomes that were found avter implimentation. Asli there will be a discussion of the practical issues of implimentation, cost, and training of both staff and pateints and caregivers. Attendiees will see that using new application based solutions can leverage the power inherent in the smart devices that most patinets and families carry and can be an adjuct that improves patient care.

Learning Objectives:

• understand the mHealth implications of using an App based solution to help orient and guide the care of patients in an acute inpatient rehabilitation setting
• Know how to use the App based solution to help patients and caregivers participate in their care and how this can help with carryover to the next level of care
• Learn how to integrate an mHealth intervention in order to be able to create a tool to ease discharge and transferring care back to the community for patients and caregivers.