Christian Reinhard

NICE releases Medtech Innovation Briefing on calprotectin point of care and home testing for monitoring IBD treatment

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On 4th December 2017 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence issued a Medtech Innovation Briefing [MIB132]: ‘Point-of-care and home faecal calprotectin tests for monitoring treatment response in inflammatory bowel disease’. This describes the innovative aspect that test results can be acted on more quickly than waiting for standard laboratory tests and could help reduce colonoscopies and clinical appointments. Costs may …

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IBDoc and Me

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A patient from the UK is currently testing IBDoc® and is writing about his experience on his blog. He started the test last October and is trying this new tool to monitor his Crohn’s Disease during one year. Have a look at his blog posts here  

Health Care Business Award for IBDoc

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For the second year, Boussias Communications and Health Daily organized the Healthcare Business Awards 2017 in Greece. The award is meant to showcase and reward innovative healthcare actions. This year the AbbVie Greece received the Gold Award in the Health Innovation category. Together with BÜHLMANN Laboratories AG and the home care provider PCC Hellas AbbVie implemented IBDoc® into their Care Programm for patients suffering …

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New Smartphone Models Supported

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In September we received regulatory approval to expand the list of supported smartphones for IBDoc®.  Like for the previous approvals, we used our established thorough validation control to add 12 additional models. Since each smartphone model differs in camera and processor type, which relates to differences in measurement we always need to make sure that the supported …

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The Value of Calprotectin in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Monitoring

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Calprotectin: The Key to a Successful Treatment Pathway for IBD What is Inflammatory Bowel Disease? Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the gut, which presents with periods of inflammatory activity (flares) and quiescent phases (remission) as  can be seen in many chronic diseases. IBD includes several different diseases; the two most …

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