Mayo pilot adds Fitbit data to heart patient app  By: Jonah
Comstock | Feb 7, 2013          Tags: | | | | | |  |  mayo
clinic mycare   The app, called MyCare, is a patient
communication app that shows patients and their families a
personalized “Plan of Stay,” laying out on a calendar when each
part of the prep, surgery, and recovery is due to happen. The
app also embeds educational modules through each step of the
process. During the surgery, the app is designed to help
families follow along and understand what’s happening to the
patient. Prior to the pilot, the Mayo Clinic conducted focus
groups with surgery patients and their families to determine how
best to design the app and the program.  The app also lets the
patient report their progress during recovery, telling the
doctors how much they’ve walked or eaten each day, for instance.
The Mayo Clinic’s Dr. David J. Cook told Dorfman that the app
helped to reduce hospital stays for some patients, because the
app alerted doctors when patients weren’t meeting