Talking the most recent language of healthcare: digital well being tech

Whether or not beginning or sustaining remedy, the Embark App has a number of options that may assist sufferers on ENBREL all through their remedy expertise.

Because the healthcare business continues to evolve and remodel, digital well being know-how has emerged as a vital software for sufferers and healthcare suppliers. Particularly, well being apps —which there are actually greater than 300,000 developed—are altering how sufferers work together with the healthcare system.¹ Right now, extra People have entry to a smartphone than laptops or desktops, making apps more and more accessible.²

Along with being accessible, digital well being apps typically low value and embody useful personalised options for sufferers.³ Their means to supply sensible features comparable to well being training, monitoring of signs and unwanted side effects, appointment administration, and social assist could make them a compelling healthcare software.³

Amgen, a pacesetter within the evolution of remedy choices and affected person experiences in rheumatology, has paired two-decades of rheumatology experience with the most recent digital applied sciences to assist sufferers on ENBREL handle their remedy routine, illustrated most not too long ago by the corporate’s latest innovation – the Embark App.

ENBREL treats sufferers with reasonable to extreme rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA).⁴ ENBREL is a self-injectable biologic remedy that’s indicated for decreasing indicators and signs, together with main scientific response, inhibiting the development of structural injury, and bettering bodily perform in sufferers with reasonably to severely energetic RA.⁴ ENBREL may be initiated together with methotrexate (MTX) or used alone.⁴ See further indications under.

ENBREL may cause critical opposed reactions, some deadly. See Necessary Security Data under, together with BOXED WARNINGS, for threat of significant infections, together with tuberculosis and different opportunistic infections, and malignancies.

The Embark App helps sufferers handle essential details about their remedy and leverages Bluetooth® know-how to assist sufferers mechanically monitor their ENBREL injections with the AutoTouch Join autoinjector.^4,5 Designed to assist sufferers begin and handle their remedy, the app offers sources starting from monetary assist data and medicine reminders to injection web site monitoring and academic supplies.⁵

The Embark App is the primary app that pairs with a medical gadget to obtain the Ease of Use Certification from the Arthritis Basis. You may learn extra about this certification right here.⁶

“The app jogs my memory to take my medicine, schedule physician visits, and it’s multi function place. It helps me take into consideration my remedy and have higher conversations with my physician,” shared Katie, a affected person at present on ENBREL.

The Embark App helps assist sufferers with the next key options:

• Monetary Data and Assist On-Demand: Eligible commercially insured sufferers can enroll within the Co-Pay Card* program and think about their latest transaction historical past. Sufferers may also assessment ENBREL medicine, security data, and watch supplemental injection demonstration movies.
• Handy Reminders: The Embark App helps sufferers handle their remedy schedule for not simply ENBREL, however all their medicines in a single place with the flexibility to create reminders and schedule notifications for physician visits, refills and extra.
• Customized Injection Assist: Throughout the app, sufferers will discover assist and a number of sources to assist with injections together with:
  • • Help from ENBREL Nurse Associates**: Sufferers can join with nurses over the telephone for added assist or schedule an in-person go to.
    • Injection Web site Monitoring: Given the significance of alternating injection websites in your physique with every dose of ENBREL, the Embark App permits sufferers to maintain monitor of their injection websites on their physique.
    • Computerized Injection Monitoring: Sufferers who pair their ENBREL AutoTouch Join autoinjector with the Embark App can mechanically document their injections and think about a medicine report of their ENBREL use inside the app.

The Embark App is free to obtain on each the Apple and Google Play App shops, and to study extra about all of the options, go to: enbrel.com/embark.

*Eligibility standards and program limits apply. For full phrases and circumstances, go to enbrelcostinfo.com

**ENBREL Nurse Companions are nurses by coaching, however they don’t seem to be a part of the remedy group or an extension of the physician’s workplace. ENBREL Nurse Companions don’t inject sufferers with ENBREL. Solely a affected person’s supplier can provide scientific recommendation.

Prescription ENBREL® (etanercept) is taken (given) by injection.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION

What’s a very powerful data I ought to find out about ENBREL?

ENBREL is a medication that impacts your immune system. ENBREL can decrease the flexibility of your immune system to combat infections. Severe infections have occurred in sufferers taking ENBREL. These infections embody tuberculosis (TB) and infections brought on by viruses, fungi, or micro organism which have unfold all through the physique. Some sufferers have died from these infections. Your healthcare supplier ought to check you for TB earlier than you are taking ENBREL and monitor you carefully for TB earlier than, throughout, and after ENBREL remedy, even if in case you have examined adverse for TB.

There have been some circumstances of surprising cancers, some leading to dying, reported in youngsters and teenage sufferers who began utilizing tumor necrosis issue (TNF) blockers earlier than 18 years of age. Additionally, for youngsters, youngsters, and adults taking TNF blockers, together with ENBREL, the probabilities of getting lymphoma or different cancers might enhance. Sufferers with RA could also be extra prone to get lymphoma.

Earlier than beginning ENBREL, inform your healthcare supplier in the event you:

• Have any current medical circumstances
• Are taking any medicines, together with herbals
• Assume you may have, are being handled for, have indicators of, or are susceptible to an infection. You shouldn’t begin taking ENBREL if in case you have any sort of an infection, except your healthcare supplier says it’s okay
• Have any open cuts or sores
• Have diabetes, HIV, or a weak immune system
• Have TB or have been in shut contact with somebody who has had TB
• Have been born in, lived in, or traveled to international locations the place there may be extra threat for getting TB. Ask your healthcare supplier if you’re unsure
• Dwell, have lived in, or traveled to sure components of the nation (comparable to, the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys, or the Southwest) the place there’s a higher threat for sure sorts of fungal infections, comparable to histoplasmosis. These infections might develop or grow to be extra extreme in the event you take ENBREL. In case you don’t know if these infections are widespread within the areas you’ve been to, ask your healthcare supplier
• Have or have had hepatitis B
• Have or have had coronary heart failure
• Develop signs comparable to persistent fever, bruising, bleeding, or paleness whereas taking ENBREL
• Use the medication Kineret (anakinra), Orencia (abatacept), or Cytoxan (cyclophosphamide)
• Are taking anti-diabetic medicines
• Have, have had, or develop a critical nervous dysfunction, seizures, any numbness or tingling, or a illness that impacts your nervous system comparable to a number of sclerosis or Guillain-Barré syndrome
• Are scheduled to have surgical procedure
• Have not too long ago acquired or are scheduled for any vaccines. All vaccines must be introduced up-to-date earlier than beginning ENBREL. Sufferers taking ENBREL shouldn’t obtain stay vaccines.
• Are allergic to rubber or latex
• Are pregnant, planning to grow to be pregnant, or breastfeeding
• Have been round somebody with rooster pox

What are the potential unwanted side effects of ENBREL?

ENBREL may cause critical unwanted side effects together with: New infections or worsening of infections you have already got; hepatitis B can grow to be energetic if you have already got had it; nervous system issues, comparable to a number of sclerosis, seizures, or irritation of the nerves of the eyes; blood issues (some deadly); new or worsening coronary heart failure; new or worsening psoriasis; allergic reactions; autoimmune reactions, together with a lupus-like syndrome and autoimmune hepatitis.

Widespread unwanted side effects embody: Injection web site reactions and higher respiratory infections (sinus infections).

Normally, unwanted side effects in youngsters have been comparable in frequency and sort as these seen in grownup sufferers. The sorts of infections reported have been usually delicate and much like these often seen in youngsters.

These usually are not all of the unwanted side effects with ENBREL. Inform your healthcare supplier about any facet impact that bothers you or doesn’t go away.

You probably have any questions on this data, be sure you talk about them together with your healthcare supplier. You might be inspired to report adverse unwanted side effects of prescribed drugs to the FDA. Go to www.fda.gov/medwatch, or name 1-800-FDA-1088.

Please see Prescribing Data and Treatment Information.

Please see the Consumer Guide for AutoTouch Join reusable autoinjector to be used with Enbrel Mini® (etanercept) single-dose prefilled cartridge.

INDICATIONS

Reasonable to Extreme Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

ENBREL is indicated for decreasing indicators and signs, maintaining joint injury from getting worse, and bettering bodily perform in sufferers with reasonably to severely energetic rheumatoid arthritis. ENBREL may be taken with methotrexate or used alone.

Psoriatic Arthritis

ENBREL is indicated for decreasing indicators and signs, maintaining joint injury from getting worse, and bettering bodily perform in sufferers with psoriatic arthritis. ENBREL can be utilized with or with out methotrexate.

Reasonable to Extreme Plaque Psoriasis

ENBREL is indicated for continual reasonable to extreme plaque psoriasis (PsO) in youngsters 4 years and older and adults who might profit from taking injections or capsules (systemic remedy) or phototherapy (ultraviolet mild).

Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS)

ENBREL is indicated for decreasing indicators and signs in sufferers with energetic ankylosing spondylitis.

Reasonably to Severely Energetic Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)

ENBREL is indicated for decreasing indicators and signs of reasonably to severely energetic polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) in youngsters ages 2 years and older.

 

References

1. Bates, D. W., Landman, A. & Levine, D. M. Well being apps and well being coverage: what is required? JAMA 320, 1975–1976 (2018).

2. Pew Analysis Middle. 2019 Core Tendencies Survey. https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/FT_19.05.23_DigitalDivideCommType_methodology_topline.pdf

3. Sedhom, R., McShea, M.J., Cohen, A.B. et al. Cell app validation: a digital well being scorecard method. npj Digit. Med. 4, 111 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-021-00476-7 .

4. ENBREL® (etanercept) prescribing data, Amgen, April 2021

5. ENBREL® (etanercept), AutoTouch Consumer Guide. Revised April 2021

6. Embark® App Ease of Use Certification, Arthritis Basis. April 2022