NutriA: a Responsive Web App to Monitor Nutrition and Clinical Outcomes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a term that includes two chronic conditions characterized by inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, i.e., Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease. IBD can be associated to symptoms that significantly reduce quality of life and can lead to serious complications, therefore proper disease monitoring and treatment is necessary. To this end, Telemedicine has been identified as a useful tool, since it can ease the patients’ burden on the management of nutrition and pharmacological treatment, and can improve the connection with the physicians. In this paper, we present NutriA, a new responsive web application for the management of IBD patients in Italy, created to assist patients with diet, medications and symptoms monitoring, optimizing the follow-ups frequency and providing direct assistance by the doctors. Besides being useful to improve the patients’ well-being, NutriA is also designed to be used in a new clinical study on the effects of malnutrition on IBD treatment.