Article Excerpt: The common method for diagnosing Parkinson’s disease is a 60-question test, with answers rated on a scale of 1 to 5. “Pass” the test, and you’ve got Parkinson’s. mHealth is going to change that.
Intel and the Michael J. Fox Foundation are joining forces on a project to collect and analyze data from Parkinson’s patients through wearable devices – more specifically, a Pebble watch. The idea is that a wrist-borne monitor will give researchers more insight to the debilitating disease than any Q&A. “The lesson here is you simply cannot manage what you cannot measure,” Ken Kubota, director of data science for the Michael J. Fox Foundation, told an audience at this week’s mHealth Summit outside Washington D.C.
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Article Source: mHealth News