The United Colon Vlog

It’s amazing sometimes what technology and collaboration can produce. Improve Care Now is a collaborative effort between health care professionals to help kids with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Basically, GI offices around the country have signed on to the program and share with each other medical information about their patients, recording what happens during patient visits and documenting how patients are treated. Currently the program collects data from over 2,000 children. Every month, the data is synthesized and helps health care professionals notice trends and advances in treatment plans.

Additionally, doctors and nurses can share their successes with treating the disease with others. The bottom line: for patients enrolled in this program, remission rates have risen by as much as 20%, and overall patient care in other areas has increased as well. Find out more about their successes here.

Based on their current results, Improve Care Now believes that if every child with IBD was part of the program, 10,000 kids would be in remission, not because of the creation of a new drug, but because medical professionals are sharing information and strategies that work to treat IBD.

Check out their video below.

Keep fighting,
~Dennis