A tablet computer application helped heart patients with drug-eluting stents take their medications correctly, a study has found.
The software, called MyIDEA (for “My Interventional Drug-Eluting Stent Education App”) was developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago who study data-simplification as a way to improve clinical outcomes.
Andrew Boyd, assistant professor of biomedical and health information sciences in the UIC College of Applied Health Sciences, says the app uses a patient-centered narrative to help patients understand the importance of taking their medication.
