Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease requiring long-term treatment with regular monitoring of the ongoing therapeutic process by a rheumatologist to achieve good health outcomes and prevent negative disease impacts.

Objectives: The RheVITAL App is the product of a new and multilayered concept of treatment.

A combination of a team of rheumatologists, physiotherapists, IT specialists and research partners from the German League against Arthritis have all contributed to the development of this research project.

Methods: The presentation will show how this monitoring system improves the treatment of RA individually, monitors the patients on their way to self - empowerment and promotes participative collaboration between patients and rheumatologists.

Results: The patients play an active role in the whole system. The patients are trained about their diseases, their treatment and the medicine they are taking. Furthermore they are given much more information about the German patient organisation.

Conclusion: My talk will consider the function and management of the app, the difficulties as well as the efforts of data security and the role of the patient organisation as a research partner involved in this project.

Disclosure of Interests: None declared

DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-eular.8469