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MenoPro app helps clinicians, patients manage menopausal symptoms
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During its 25th annual meeting, The North American Menopause Society launched MenoPro, a mobile iPhone/iPad menopause app designed for use by clinicians and patients to help manage menopausal symptoms and assess risk factors.
The algorithm-based app, featuring separate modes for provider and patients, offers access to society resources, a cardiovascular disease risk score calculator and the capability to email a decision-making process summary and other information to patients.
“This new app represents a major step forward for both clinicians and patients looking to make more informed health care decisions,” JoAnn Manson, MD, scientific program chair for the conference, said in press release.
The app is expected to revolutionize the management of menopausal symptoms, using the most recent science to support clinicians in deciding pharmacologic treatment and personalizing care based on the algorithm, according to Manson.
Manson, along with colleagues, penned the paper, “Algorithm and Mobile App for Menopausal Symptom Management and Hormonal/Non-hormonal Therapy Decision Making: A Clinical Decision-Support Tool from The North American Menopause Society,” which was published recently in the journal Menopause.
Deciding whether to use medication to manage menopausal symptoms is controversial for women in midlife, Margery Gass, MD, executive director of NAMS, said in the release.
“Given the expanded array of treatment options and contradictory information available, many women feel overwhelmed,” Gass said. “This new app is designed to streamline the decision-making process and encourages patients to communicate and work together with their clinicians.”
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