Pip Care to Improve Surgical Patient Outcomes
Utilization of Digital Health Platform Plus Live Coaching Improves Surgical Patients Outcomes - Phase II
University of Pittsburgh
1,300 participants
Oct 13, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
Pip Care is developing a personalized, interactive surgical journey platform with a live health coach that works directly with health systems to optimize the perioperative care process. Our Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant platform, Pip, can be integrated into any electronic medical record (EMR), thus alleviating the administrative burden by making operational workflows more efficient. The PIP empowers patients and their families to be more involved in their care by breaking down a patient's healthcare plan into definable, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-complete tasks. Additionally, a health coach completes a health intake to create a personalized perioperative care plan, meets regularly with the patient to encourage goal accomplishment, and facilitates care coordination. This project has 2 phases; Phase I is to assess usability of the Pip Care platform in surgical patients, Phase II is a RCT (Randomized Controlled Trial) to assess surgical clinical outcomes while using Pip compared to standard of care.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria3
- Adult patient ≥18 years old
- Planned elective, inpatient surgery between 2 to 8 weeks following enrollment in Pip within the following surgical specialties: complex abdominal surgery (general surgery, colorectal surgery, surgical oncology), gynecologic oncology, thoracic surgery, spine surgery, and orthopedic joint surgery
- Daily access to a smartphone or tablet.
Exclusion Criteria3
- Unable to speak English
- Unable to use a smartphone or tablet independently or with daily assistance.
- Currently pregnant (assessed via standard-of-care pre-operative workup)
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Interventions
Pip Care Digital Health Platform is a smartphone application granting access to a health coach who will assist the patient in completing a health intake, creating personalized perioperative care plans, and meets regularly with the patient to encourage goal accomplishments and supports healthy surgical recovery.
Subjects in this intervention group will receive routine, standard of care throughout their surgery and hospital stay as determined by their acting clinical care team.
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NCT06661291