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. 2021 Jun 8;9(7):20. doi: 10.1007/s40137-021-00297-3

Table 3.

Some mobile applications for gastrointestinal conditions

Mobile App Features

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Cara Care: IBS

• IBS, FODMAP tracker—tracks bowel movements, stress, dietary intake, pain, and other GI symptoms; shows trends and correlations among inputted data and symptom outcomes

• 12-week IBS program—self-paced low FODMAP diet plan with access to tips for managing IBS based on science, medically validated IBS questionnaires, and chat with dietitian

• Data sharing—ability to share data with medical provider

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Gali Health: IBD

• Artificial intelligence health assistance—gathers data on date of diagnosis, disease form and activity, symptoms, and challenges with current care in order to create personalized recommendations

• Health tracking and analytics—daily health and treatment monitors, ability to generate reports and share with care team

• Information—chat feature with Gali for asking IBD-related questions, gather disease-related insights

• Community—ability to comment on posts, ask questions, share experiences with users

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My Symptoms

• Food and symptom diary—ability to track food, symptoms, bowel movements, exercise, stress, sleep, in order to help determine patterns and trigger foods in the diet

• Reports—provides diary analysis to illustrate correlations between various factors and symptoms

FODMAP fermentable oligo-, di-, monosaccharides and polyols, IBD inflammatory bowel disease, IBS irritable bowel syndrome