ADHD Online Application Proves Helpful To Doctors

BOSTON (CBS) — “School isn’t my favorite thing to do. I think ‘Eh’ about school.” Not an uncommon sentiment among 10-year-olds like Eli Bak of Belmont, but there’s one subject he really struggles with: writing. “He has difficulty with things that require a lot of handwork and difficulty with things that require a lot of steps,” says Randy Bak, Eli’s father. Bak’s parents consulted with Dr. Marilyn Augustyn, a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at Boston Medical Center. She wanted to rule out attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. “It’s the kind of diagnosis that I really need parent and teacher information for,” she says. “And so that’s why mehealth was just perfect.” Mehealth for ADHD is an online application developed by a company in Marlborough. “It was a way that I could get that information in a really fast way and a really efficient way,” says the doctor, “Without having to fax and try to call.” The mehealth platform allows teachers and parents to fill out behavioral questionnaires on a computer, a tablet, or smart phone, and submit them wirelessly to their pediatrician who analyzes the data to make a diagnosis. Augustyn says this particular child, because they had several inattentive symptoms, they decided to treat him. Filling out the online evaluation for both a parent and a teacher takes no more than 10-to-15 minutes. The doctor was lucky to get 20 percent of paper questionnaires back, ...
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