At the Campus Bio-Medico Rome a Digital Solution for the Remote Management of the Bariatric Patient

An app ‘follows’ the obese patient after bariatric surgery. At the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital Foundation in Rome, a new digital solution helps to have better clinical results and shorter hospital stays. Is called Get Ready * and is designed for all seriously obese people who are candidates for bariatric surgery to support them in every phase of their preparation and their post-operative recovery. Developed by Medtronic, a leading Healthcare Technology company, the multidisciplinary and multispecialist team of the Bariatric Surgery Center of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital Foundation was involved in the conception and elaboration phase, where an average of 500 interventions are performed every year.

The innovation, reads a joint note from Medtronic and Campus Bio-Medico, “arises from the need for actively and attentively follow the patient throughout the treatment processup to bringing him to the best possible recovery after surgery and decreasing the abandonment of controls, which today still stands at 60% of which about 30% regains weight. Since the beginning of the year, 135 patients in the Center have been using the app. Optimization of the use of resources, reduction of the number of medical consultations in the presence, constant monitoring of patient parameters, as well as a better managed planning of the preparation path for the intervention, are just some of the expected benefits from the use of the app ".