- This digital programme, co-created by Ribera Group healthcare professionals and the startup Nootric, offers personalised nutritional plans and guides and allows patients’ state of health to be monitored in real time, in order to anticipate any worsening of their condition.
- The project has been very well received by patients at the Hospital del Vinalopó and Nefrosol, with an average age of 70, because it helps them to improve their nutritional habits and, in the case of dialysis, to care for and reduce their body weight.
The digital nutrition service provided by the Ribera healthcare group to dialysis and oncohaematology patients at the Vinalopó University Hospital and its Nefrosol dialysis centre has been well received in its first phase. Patients have found the application developed by the startup Nootric, sponsored by the healthcare group in the Lanzadera Corporate programme, and the personalised nutritional plans and guides, developed together with Ribera professionals, to be practical, attractive and useful, depending on the needs of each patient and their pathology.
Thanks to this programme, each patient’s nutritional habits can be monitored in real time, without the need to go to the doctor’s office, as in addition to permanent interaction, the application has an alert system that facilitates proactive intervention by the medical team, if necessary, and anticipation of possible worsening of the process.
80% of the participants have made active and continuous use of the app, and both professionals and patients give it a very high score, highlighting that this service has helped them to improve their quality of life and health. In fact, in the first three months, more than 100,000 interactions with the app have been recorded and patients have uploaded nearly 1,200 food photos.
In the case of dialysis patients, they highlight how this initiative has allowed them to control and reduce their body weight, reducing the complications of obesity-related kidney pathologies in some cases, and improving transplant options in others. Oncology patients highlight not only this improvement in quality of life, but also in the dietary knowledge and physical activity they need to feel well.
The good results obtained in this first phase are even more remarkable when we know the average age of the participants, which is 70 years old, which shows that, in the case of this application, technology has not been a barrier, as it provides them with real value in their health care.
The objectives of this digital nutrition service have been met. It has succeeded in educating patients in nutrition, making them feel that they are permanently accompanied; it has speeded up their recovery and reduced the side effects of treatments in oncohaematological patients; and it has helped in weight loss in dialysis patients and accelerated the possibility of transplant in potential patients.
In addition, it has been shown that nutritional plans and patient monitoring and control have not only improved the quality of life of patients but also of their caregivers, as it is often the caregivers who bear the responsibility for dietary decisions in each case.
Nootric is one of the startups in the health sector that the Ribera healthcare group has sponsored over the last three years, in the context of the Lanzadera Corporate programme, in its commitment to open innovation for the development of digital solutions that help to improve the health of its patients.
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