The burden of IBD has had an upward trajectory in recent years with disease rates paralleling the West
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General, Dr Balram Bhargava, recently released the ‘IBD NutriCare App’ for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients.
This digital health platform (IBD NutriCare) for telenutrition provides a potential tool for improving the patient care in IBD. The Android and iOS-based digital health platform in the form of a smartphone application is developed and validated for real-time tracking of dietary details and recording the data on a large scale for patients with IBD.
It will provide a personalised patient response to a database on their demographics, medications, daily dietary intake based, clinical symptoms, and disease course, and provides a recording of diet variables based on nearly 650 Indian food recipes.
The app provides real-time data which alerts the nutritionist or dietician regarding adherence issues, erroneous entries, and incorrect information thus helping timely dietary interventions and formulating individualised diet plans.