--- title: Pain Management - Buddy Healthcare description: With the BuddyCare remote care Platform, care teams have the ability to monitor, guide and support chronic pain patients after they have left the clinic. --- **CARE COORDINATION & PATIENT ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM** # MONITOR AND MANAGE YOUR CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS' CARE PROCESS WITH PATIENT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE ![Chronic pain management](https://www.buddyhealthcare.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Chronic%20pain%20management.jpeg?width=1732&height=1154&name=Chronic%20pain%20management.jpeg) ## Reduce Administrative Burden And Improve Chronic Pain Patients' Experience And Outcomes. ![pain scale measures patients pain through an app](https://www.buddyhealthcare.com/hs-fs/hubfs/pain%20scale%20measures%20patients%20pain%20through%20an%20app.jpg?width=1747&height=1240&name=pain%20scale%20measures%20patients%20pain%20through%20an%20app.jpg) ## Automate Your Chronic Pain Patients' Education and Data Collection while Monitoring Care Progress Remotely  Chronic pain is an individualized experience that has many different root causes. A short-term, acute injury may turn into a systemic and complex disease state, requiring different diagnostic approaches and management strategies. Traditionally, pain management patients receive primary care or ambulatory clinic treatment and then return to their homes and lives, attempting to manage their condition largely independently.  Without adequate support, however, they can struggle to maintain the pain management strategies which they have acquired and often may feel frustrated and even abandoned, potentially leading to a return or even worsening of their condition.  **Monitor, guide and support chronic pain patients after they have left the clinic** With the [BuddyCare remote care Platform](https://www.buddyhealthcare.com/en/platform?hsLang=en), care teams now have the ability to monitor, guide and support chronic pain patients after they have left the clinic for weeks and even months to come. Through automated, digitized care plans, instructions and reminders, patients are following the necessary steps at the right time to maximize the benefits of their clinical treatments. **Automate your patients’ instructions delivery and pain measurement** Patients can access training materials, instructional videos about exercises and pain management strategies 24/7. They can stay connected and communicate securely with their therapists and providers and upload photos, forms and questions whenever necessary.   Chronic pain can be a very isolating experience for the patient, as they are met with many unique difficulties throughout their everyday life. The BuddyCare App provides the patient with a constant care companion to guide and motivate him or her for tasks, to monitor progress and minimize challenges that may otherwise arise.  Patients will feel less alone, be more involved and committed to their own care and healing through this interactive approach. Patients may also experience less anxiety about the journey after the clinical stay.  Furthermore, the use of opioids may be better monitored for example with the help of a pain scale and even reduced as patients are more consistently guided and presented with alternative methods of pain management, such as breathing techniques, mindfulness exercises and journaling.  ## Monitor and Manage Your Pain Therapy Patients Care Pathways' Easily Additionally, medical providers and therapists can now monitor and guide their patients via a web-based Dashboard long after they have left the inpatient environment and ensure that the appropriate information is being provided to the patient at the appropriate time while having the reassurance of knowing how the patients are doing weeks and even months after their clinic stay or treatment(s). [The patient's management software's ](https://www.buddyhealthcare.com/en/patient-management-system?hsLang=en)dashboard collects pain scale data or other in-app forms from the patients and provides a convenient at-a-glance view for the care teams.    Chronic pain management is also more complex than some other specialties and may require the input of multiple disciplines rather than a single provider. Through the localization of all information in one place, interdisciplinary teams can more effectively access all needed information of a shared patient in one place. **Read[ a customer story](https://www.buddyhealthcare.com/news/university-hospital-uses-remote-care-solution-during-healthcare-crisis?hsLang=en) on how the Pain Clinic of Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck in Germany, has used the BuddyCare solution to monitor and support chronic pain patients' care process.** ![](https://www.buddyhealthcare.com/hs-fs/hubfs/WhatsApp%20Image%202020-04-11%20at%2010.41.07%20PM.jpeg?width=1280&height=855&name=WhatsApp%20Image%202020-04-11%20at%2010.41.07%20PM.jpeg) ## Virtual Care with the BuddyCare Platform ### Mobile App for Patients The patient-facing BuddyCare app helps patients to navigate through their care pathways. Timed reminders and push notifications ensure that patients get the right information at the right time. Patients can submit forms or in-app questionnaires to the care personnel and interact via the mobile app.  ![desktop-mobile-image-1](https://www.buddyhealthcare.com/hubfs/desktop-mobile-image-1.png "desktop-mobile-image-1") ### Dashboard for Care Personnel With the dashboard, the hospital care teams can monitor patients' care progress and see at-a-glance if patients have read all education, followed instructions, and submitted in-app questionnaires. The dashboard collects data during the patients' pathways and enables patient interaction. 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Our patient guidance solution and care pathway management service are designed to help healthcare providers with the automation of information exchange through patients and mobile devices. The all-in-one software as a service (SaaS) consists of a mobile app for patients, a web based clinical dashboard for care personnel and digitized care pathways management service. Our goal is to help patients to become more informed and engaged with their treatment plan through their mobile phone’s information portal, while helping you, as healthcare professionals, to monitor and manage multiple patients’ progress simultaneously. 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Patients can access to their care plan's information 24/7 in BuddyCare's patient information portal, which patients can access through their mobile phone. The pocket sized information portal is an app, which helps patients to seamlessly navigate through their care process’ steps and information. Automated notifications and reminders ensure that patients get the right information at the right time, leading them to be properly prepared for appointments or procedures. Patients can instantly submit digitised medical forms and questionnaires to hospital personnel, access video material related to their operation (or recovery) while the portal provides a secure, two-way, real-time communication channel. By using the care pathway monitoring dashboard, healthcare providers have a comprehensive, real-time view of all the patients enrolled in your clinical care pathways. The dashboard platform provides clinics with extensive capabilities to monitor and visualise patients’ compliance with their care plan. As a patient progresses through their carepath, attention notifications on care plan tasks are automated and sent to patients’ phones - while care personnel see from the dashboard which tasks have been completed and which are in progress. To assure that a patient is prepared for their next appointment, the dashboard notifies the care personnel about patients who are lagging behind in the preparation process and automatically sends the patients reminders to complete their care plan tasks, such as completing forms / and acknowledging information packets. Through the real time view of patient compliance, the care personnel can easily identify early signs of no- shows / cancellations. And combined with the direct communication channel between the patient's phone and the dashboard, the care personnel can intervene and reach out to the patient directly - no more time-intensive phone calls and unreliable emails or paper mailings. With fully automated patient guidance and data collection, clinics drastically reduce time spent on care coordination. 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