Benefits of Participating

The primary goal of Improve Care Now is to help children and adolescents with Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis to overcome their conditions and to lead happy, healthy lives. Thanks to the efforts of our participating doctors and patients, this is already beginning to happen. However, these are not the only benefits that patients in the program receive.

Here are several additional ways that patients benefit from participating with their doctors:

Pre-visit planning

Your doctors will have detailed records of your past visits and will review them prior to each new visit in order to identify your specific needs over time and help you to achieve the best health.

Advanced tools and management reports

Improve Care Now provides powerful tools and reports to your doctors, enabling them to monitor health and disease status of all patients, medications, medication doses, serious side effects, regular visits and to identify and provide extra care for patients needing more help.

Complete data collected at each visit

Your doctor will be asking the necessary questions, making the necessary measurements and tracking all of the results in the Improve Care Now system in order to build the best picture of your overall health and progress.

Assessment of nutrition and growth

Your doctor will be watching nutrition and growth closely, and will be able to make changes to receive the best possible nutrition and health.

Assessment of disease severity

Your doctor will formally assess the disease activity and your health at each visit, to track changes over time and make changes when needed.

Teamwork and alliance

Your doctor will have the benefit of teamwork and collaboration among a broad alliance of doctors that regularly see and treat thousands of patients with your condition, allowing all doctors to build a more reliable, effective and safe way to provide care.