Tracker-Based Personal Advice to Support the Baby's Healthy Development in a Novel Parenting App: Data-Driven Innovation.

Background: The current generation of millennial parents prefers digital communications and makes use of apps on a daily basis to find information about child-rearing topics. Given this, an increasing amount of parenting apps have become available. These apps also allow parents to track their baby's development with increasing completeness and precision.

Beyond the drugs: nonpharmacologic strategies to optimize procedural care in children.

Purpose Of Review: Painful and/or stressful medical procedures mean a substantial burden for sick children. There is good evidence that procedural comfort can be optimized by a comprehensive comfort-directed policy containing the triad of nonpharmacological strategies (NPS) in all cases, timely or preventive procedural analgesia if pain is an issue, and procedural sedation.

Recent Findings: Based both on well-established theoretical frameworks as well as an increasing body of scientific evidence NPS need to be regarded an inextricable part of procedural comfort care.