How will METEOR benefit you and your patients

METEOR is an on-line tool designed to improve patient care by supporting and assisting rheumatologists on a day-to-day and long-term basis. METEOR aims to:

• Capture patient data and record outcomes over time, allowing the visualisation of trends
• Help rheumatologists set goals and visually share treatment progress with the patient
• Provide a central database that can be used for publications, case studies or general research
• Provide anonymous data with no need for informed consent or permission from the institutional review board*
• Enhance and simplify rheumatologist-patient relationships

What they say about METEOR

The METEOR software is very easy to integrate in the hospital IT infrastructure and provides a safe, secure and easy to use system for both the Rheumatology and the IT department.

Karel van Lambalgen, IT Director LUMC

We looked at various privacy and medical research laws in relation to the METEOR tool and because the tool uses anonymous data, these data are collected in the course of regular treatments and therefore in most countries does not trigger any specific legal obligations. However, in a few countries the data transfer requires compliance to certain specific legal obligations, such as the use of an informed consent form*.

Polo G. van der Putt, Solicitor, Lovells LLP

Following patients' disease activity and amending treatment accordingly leads to better outcomes. This has been shown unequivocally. Meanwhile, the METEOR database will make such follow up simple.

Josef S. Smolen, Medical University of Vienna and Hietzing Hospital, Vienna, Austria

For further information please download the brochure. (Acrobat pdf, 400KB)

*The METEOR Foundation will provide help and support in resolving any country-specific legal or ethical issue.