What Apps are Available for Chronic Disease Management?

Many studies have found that mobile apps can assist patients with chronic diseases like epilepsy. A recent research article published in the journal JMIR mHealth and uHealth reviewed several apps for epilepsy and how they may help people manage their epilepsy. Check out more information below:

According to the research article, epilepsy self-management apps cover one or more of the following domains:

• Treatment Management: Help self manage treatment through things like reminders for treatments and appointments and recommendations and advice from health care providers for treatments.
• Medication Adherence: Help establish a medication list, including the dose and time the medication is taken, a reminder to take the medication and an alert when the prescription needed to be refilled.
• Health Care Communication: Enable reports to be sent to health care provider(s) and help the patient and health care provider(s) to monitor side effects related to epilepsy.
• Seizure Tracking: Enable recording of seizures including the time the seizure took place, how long the seizure lasted, the seizure type, frequency, triggers and auras and video recordings.
• Seizure Response: Feature seizure first aid instructions, including how to help someone having a seizure and when to call 911. Also allows alert messages to be sent to caregivers with GPS location either during the aura stage or following a seizure.
• Safety: Provide instructions how to avoid risks that are detrimental to people living with epilepsy.
• Wellness: Provide wellness-related information such as exercise and diet, including food tracking to help identify associations with seizure activity
• Social Support: Provide stories relating to epilepsy from others living with epilepsy and allow people to share their stories or get advice from others.
• Coping and Stress Management: Provide information on managing stress, coping skills and relaxation exercises to help prevent seizures.
• Proactivity: Provides advice on how to avoid situations or things that might cause seizures.

What Epilepsy Self-Management Apps Are Available?

The research article conducted a review on several epilepsy self-management apps that are available on either Android or iOS or both. If you are interested in downloading one or more of these apps, please see below for more information:

Available on both Android and iOS:

• Seizure Log
  • Download on iOS here
  • Download on Android here
• My Seizure Diary
  • Download on iOS here
  • Download on Android here
• Epilepsy Ireland Diary App
  • Download on iOS here
  • Download on Android here
• Seizure First Aide
  • Download on iOS here
  • Download on Android here
• Birdhouse – for Epilepsy
  • Download on iOS here
  • Download on Android here
• EpApp
  • Download on iOS here
  • Download on Android here
• Helpilepsy – Epilepsy Assistant & Diary
  • Download on iOS here
  • Download on Android here

Available on Android only:

• Epilepsy Journal
  • Download on Android here
• Epilepsy Diary
  • Download on Android here
• Simple Seizure
  • Download on Android here
• Win Over Epilepsy
  • Download on Android here

Available on iOS only:

• E-Epilepsy Inclusion
  • Download on iOS here
• ElFY Epilepsy
  • Download on iOS here
• Epi & Me 2
  • Download on iOS here
• M.E.
  • Download on iOS here

For more information on epilepsy self-management apps, you can read the research article here.