Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging to use Wellframe’s mobile platform with mental health patients

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Boston-based Wellframe is teaming-up with Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging to use mobile technology to study Dartmouth’s Integrated Behavioral Health Program with older adults with serious mental illness.

Dartmouth’s Integrated Illness Management and Recovery (I-IMR) program, developed by Dr. Stephen Bartels and his Dartmouth research group, will be delivered through Wellframe’s Intelligent Care Management Platform. I-IMR combines physical and behavioral health self-management training that will be delivered through an easy-to-follow daily health checklist, which is sent directly to the participants’ mobile phones. Participants will receive reminders about their daily health tasks and can measure their own progress, including medication adherence and physical activity, while also viewing educational content. On the other hand, Dartmouth’s medical team will be using the Clinician Dashboard to view their participants’ progress in real-time, and send personalized messages of encouragement or instructions as needed.

“This project is focused on the very special population of middle-aged and older individuals who are at high risk of early mortality due to the combined challenges of having a major psychiatric condition such as schizophrenia combined with a major health condition such as diabetes or heart disease,” said Stephen J. Bartels, MD, MS, Professor and the Director of Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging. “We hope to demonstrate that this program using mobile technology can result in improved self-management among individuals with serious psychiatric and physical conditions.”