MUSC Children’s Hospital offers specialized burn treatment for patients throughout SC. Care often requires repeated dressing changes at home, leading to patient and parent anxiety as well as multiple trips to the burn clinic to assess healing and prevent complications. We will use mobile technology to improve burn care in the home by connecting patients and families with expert burn nurses and and physicians at MUSC.

Heart Valve promotes healthy lifestyle through proactive gathering of biometric data to assist the medical team in developing a tailored treatment for patients with a heart valve transplant. HeartValve monitors and relays weight, blood oxygen saturation, and blood pressure measurements to healthcare providers to assist in patient recovery.

Bounce Back Now is designed to improve mental health recovery through symptom tracking, self-help, referral to local health care providers. This app includes several resources based on best practices in the areas of mood, anxiety, and sleep.

SMASH (Smartphone Medication Adherence Stops Hypertension) program uses a patient and provider-centered mobile app to monitor adherence to the participant’s medical regimen –including medication adherence and blood pressure monitoring. SMASH enables physicians to closely monitor patient treatment and adjust medical regimen to better suit the patient’s needs.

Tension Tamer is a smart phone application that acquires the user’s heart rate through the user’s camera. Tension Tamer promotes Breathing Awareness Meditation (BAM), a simple, yet powerful meditation technique, through audio and video. By using Tension Tamer, the user is able to achieve an attentive and open state of mind.

SMASK (Smart Phone Medication Adherence Stops Kidney loss) allows physicians to continuously monitor kidney transplant patients through an integrated electronic pill tray and blue-toothed BP monitoring. Through SMASK, physicians are able to adjust treatment in an agile manner to help promote and secure a healthy and joyous life for the patient.

PINGS SMASH (Smartphone Medication Adherence Stops Hypertension) program in Ghana uses a patient and provider-centered mobile app to monitor adherence to the participant’s medical regimen –including medication adherence and blood pressure monitoring. SMASH enables physicians to closely monitor patient treatment and adjust medical regimen to better suit the patient’s needs.

My Mobile Monitor (M3) is a cross-platform mobile application developed to monitor and detect smoking and relapse in adolescents and young adults. This system combines self-reported questionnaires on cravings to smoke, mood, stress levels, and current context with video breath samples that indicate recent smoking. Users can track their smoking by logging cigarettes in real-time. Geospatial location monitoring also helps to identify common smoking locations and high-risk areas. Initial pilot testing is underway with this app. We hope to use this platform in the future to not only monitor smoking and relapse, but help smokers to quit and prevent going back to smoking!

MITY is an interactive, web-based smartphone application designed to target co-occurring problems in outpatient treatment settings. MITY incorporates personalized activities, developmentally tailored information, and evidence-based treatment principles to address each teen's specific needs and goals.

VOICE Crisis Alert is a sickle cell disease (SCD) crisis tracking and communicating app with useful features that are easy to find and easy to use. Some of these features include a pain tracker, a pain history chart, and the VOICE My Crisis feature, which allows SCD patients or caregivers to communicate pain/crisis events to pre-entered contacts of their choice (family members, caregivers, healthcare providers, or friends).

MUSC WayFinding is a smart phone application that assists visitors to MUSC campus with finding parking, directions for indoor and out-door locations, and display relevant location based content to the user. With MUSC WayFinding, users can successfully traverse the university’s campus and behold our campus’s beauty.

The June 17, 2015, massacre at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. had a profound effect on the families of those who were killed, witnesses and survivors, the Mother Emanuel congregation, and many others. Nine partner organizations received funding from a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime designed to address the needs of those affected by this tragic event by providing a broad range of information and services.