Altea Care – your companion for Long COVID

Now available: Altea Care

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Altea Care supports healthcare professionals and people affected by Long COVID in diagnostics and case management, as well as in self-management through a symptom diary and medical guidebooks on numerous Long COVID symptoms. The combined application consists of an app for patients and a web-based portal for healthcare professionals. The pilot project is currently in the test phase. The aim of the test phase is to optimize Altea Care to meet the needs of users.

 

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/altea-care/id6470800616

 

Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.movos.altea.care&hl=  

A pilot project to improve Long COVID care

Altea Care is a companion app for people affected by Long COVID. The app offers a brief risk assessment that estimates the likelihood of having Long COVID. The risk assessment does not replace a medical examination by a specialist. In addition to this, people affected by Long COVID can use a symptom diary to record the course of their overall well-being and individual symptoms. Keeping a symptom diary might help to find out which activities, tasks, or experiences affect your symptoms and general well-being.

Altea Care also contains content available on Altea, making it easier to access our symptom-specific guidebooks, current blog posts and stories.

  

Based on the "Evidence-based Post-COVID-19 Assessment" (EPOCA), movos AG has developed an innovative digital application to simplify Long COVID diagnostics in cooperation with the Altea Association and the Swiss insurance medicine. An integrated contact search function can help those affected to find specialists with whom they can use the EPOCA assessment.

 

Altea Care enables patients to complete the majority of the EPOCA questionnaire at home on their mobile device. Healthcare professionals use the web based Altea Care medPortal, which transmits the patient's answers, enables flexible case management and automatically generates a report once the questionnaire has been completed. Two additional medical tests must be carried out during the consultation at the clinic. The time required to finalize EPOCA on site can be reduced from 2 hours to 45 minutes thanks to Altea Care.

Altea Care is directed towards the needs of people affected by Long COVID

Advantages for patients:

  • Structured documentation of symptoms
  • Carrying out the assessment at home: patients can carry out the assessment according to their energy resources and take breaks if necessary.
  • Shortening the time to diagnosis: by speeding up the assessment process, targeted therapy can be initiated as quickly as possible for people affected by Long COVID

Altea Care supports healthcare professionals in the case management of their Long COVID patients

Advantages for healthcare professionals: 

  • Standardized data for systematic decision-making
  • Quality management: documentation of medically and actuarially relevant parameters in an assessment
  • Continuous and clear progress monitoring
  • Increased efficiency in consultation hours
  • Automatic report generation

 

Are you a healthcare professional caring for Long COVID patients?

Altea Care is applicable for

  • primary medical care, specialists, and clinics
  • Long COVID consultation hours and
  • insurance medicine.

What happens to my data?

  • The information on the app remains solely with you. Neither the treating healthcare professional nor insurance companies or the provider have access to your data.
  • The symptom diary is also exclusively designed for self-management.
  • The EPOCA assessment is carried out together with a doctor or practice assistant and can therefore be viewed by healthcare professionals with your consent. In the current version, this data release extends to the healthcare professionals of the treating practice or clinic.

 

Insurance companies or third parties cannot access your data. movos AG acts as a data processor. The data is anonymized using the latest cryptographic methods. The cryptographic key lies with you. This protection means that your personal data cannot be personally assigned by either movos or third parties.

Due to this data protection system, the app may not be deleted from the mobile device in this version, as this would also delete your cryptographic key.

You can find more information here: www.movos.ch/platform

Altea Care – Good to know

  • Patients can only take the EPOCA assessment after being invited to do so by their doctor.
  • The app follows the principle of "privacy by design" and thus protects the user's data. Insurance companies or third parties cannot access patient data.
  • If you are a healthcare professional and would like to test Altea Care, register here.

If you have any questions or would like support with Altea Care, please do not hesitate to contact us at support@movos.ch.

We will be happy to help you.

 

What is EPOCA?

The "Evidence-based post-COVID-19 Assessment" was developed by the EPOCA working group of the Swiss Insurance Medicine (SIM). EPOCA is a needs-based tool for evaluative and accompanying screening of Long COVID symptoms with the overarching aim of coordinating treatment and rehabilitation paths as well as reintegration measures. 

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