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Theresa Abrams and Interdisciplinary Team Develop Burn App

Thereasa Abrams, assistant professor at the College’s Nashville campus, envisioned the design of a mobile app so that patients released from burn units could receive the recovery guidance they require without the need of in-person consultation at overburdened medical facilities. She collaborated with five others from the University of Tennessee and the Firefighters Burn Center to bring the development of this mobile app to fruition. It will be used to meet recovery needs of newly discharged patients from the burn center and burn patients being treated as outpatients.

The app, developed in 2017, is a HIPPA-compliant tool designed to provide essential wound care and other recovery information to discharged burn patients. Automatic messages are sent one to three times a day to a patient to remind and encourage them to continue with self-care.

“The process that was followed for developing, designing, and implementing this app could be used for other health applications to reach at-risk populations,” Abrams said.

Read more at: https://news.utk.edu/2020/03/18/amid-covid-19-concerns-app-for-patient-support-adopted-by-burn-center/