TRU-Pain

The TRU-Pain App is like having an online diary in your pocket! It is designed to track your general health as you wish.

The TRU-Pain app is specifically designed to help:
- Patients log in the most common symptoms and complaints
- Allow the integration of wearable data extraction including heart rate and steps with optional app (not included)
- Medical teams remotely track and communicate with patients as desired
- Record data into a HIPAA compliant database that can then be queried for analysis

To use TRU-Pain, email nirmish.shah@duke.edu for details of how to participate and receive unique log in information.

Interestingly, We are collecting self-reported data which are by nature subjective (although from the point of view of the reporter, they are also objective data). Atmospheric data is objective data that has been associated with health. We would like to gather atmospheric data, such as cloudy sky, for example, together with reports of health measures such as general wellbeing. As one could imagine, it may be hard to tease out the effects of a medical intervention from other environmental factors that are known to influence health and perhaps, more important, health perception. Atmospheric conditions may play a a significant role in health, health perception, and behaviors associated with health. So we hope those atmospheric data will help one understand a little bit more how their health traks with environmental data. In order to gather this data we do ask for your permission to use geolocation. Geo location data is not saved, it merely allows us to collect atmospheric data for the current location.