MyRA Touch

Introducing MyRA Touch – An innovative tool to enhance the application of

electronic- patient reported outcome (ePRO) in the management of rheumatoid

arthritis (RA).

MyRA Touch is a locally designed electronic platform aiming to actively engage

RA patients in monitoring their disease activity, emphasizing on the importance

of patient reported outcome (PRO). Early use of ePRO during outpatient clinic

consultation has been proven to benefit both patients and health care providers.

It facilitates decision-making process in day-to- day clinical practice.

For medical practitioners:

MyRA Touch is useful among medical practitioners who manage RA patients.

This program is available in four languages, ie English, Malay, Mandarin, and

Tamil. There is also an animation version with voice recording in 4 languages for

illiterate patient. RA patients will enter the necessary data required for disease

activity assessment prior to each clinic visit. For example, number of tender and

swollen joints based on 28 joints disease activity scoring index (DAS-28). Other

parameters being recorded in this application include: number of self-reported

tender and swollen joints based on DAS28 via visual joint homunculus, Routine

Assessment of Patient Index Data 3 (RAPID3), and Global Health Assessment

using 100mm visual analogue scale (VAS). Patients are required to complete all

data entry before assessment can be made. Patient’s RA disease activity will be

auto-calculated by this electronic application. Current and previous disease

activities score index will be displayed on a separate summarised page.