About WellApps

Let’s say your personal physician was with you 24 hours a day for a month to witness the symptoms of your chronic illness. OK – scary image. Point is… he/she would probably be able to get you feeling better a whole lot more quickly.

WellApps attempts to create this effect using mobile and online symptom tracking applications. Patients can log their symptoms using our simple apps (WellApps) and participating physicians can see their patients’ data in real-time.

Furthermore, this data can be collected anonymously and shared with researchers to make progress in the treatment of chronic illnesses.

These are our goals at WellApps. And we are proud to introduce our first service for Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis. GI Monitor 2.0.

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Latest News and Updates

By Brett Shamosh (CEO & Founder)

I've had Ulcerative Colitis since the age of 16 and I've never been good about tracking my symptoms. So I built an iPhone app. for patients to provide better data to their docs...and then I built an online app...and then I made sure they sync'd...and then I realized that this data could potentially help find better treatments and maybe even a cure for my condition. This is my blog...where you can keep up to date on WellApps services like GI Monitor and everything I learn along my journey as I aim to influence the future of "participatory health".

Updates, New Features and Thanks

Just a quick note to all GI Monitor users to let you know that I have recovered from an illness (unrelated to my UC) that kept me on the sidelines for about a month. Thanks to all for the kind wishes during this time. While I was sidelined, our development team continued to hammer away at some very impressive updates for GI Monitor (mobile and web). These features will be announced soon and the new iPhone update will be available (pending Apple’s approval process). I will update everyone very soon with a detailed explanation of the upgrades.

Balancing IBD and a Career

Throughout my career as a digital professional (I started in TV), I have been forced to work from home from time to time, due to flare-ups of my Ulcerative Colitis. I have always been “tech friendly”, but my health condition definitely pushed me to become as efficient as possible as a telecommuter. Leveraging technologies to work remotely when necessary keeps me comfortable and happy on a personal level, resulting in increased productivity in my professional life.

McGwire’s Admission Inspires Remission?

In light of Mark McGwire’s recent admission to taking steroids, I have been inspired to come clean as well. I have taken steroids throughout my career as an Ulcerative Colitis patient.

Ever since I was a young boy, it has been my dream to run to the bathroom as infrequently as possible with the lowest levels of urgency. From time to time throughout my Colitis career, I turned to steroids to get myself into remission. I understand that what I did can be viewed as “cheating”, and for that I am sorry.

The Future of “Participatory Health”

There is no shortage of people who want to take better control of their health. As technology continues to mature, data entry points will be uber-accessible allowing consumers to easily record symptoms anytime and anyplace.

How we record symptoms today:

My Top 2 Colitis “Attack” Stories of the Decade

As the decade comes to a close, I thought I’d tell my favorite personal Colitis “Attack” stories. As all Crohn’s and Colitis patients know (by the way, I’ve been diagnosed with both over the years, but the latest is left-sided UC), when you gotta go, you gotta go. Here are 2 stories that illustrate that fact.

Story #2