New digital health technologies could lead to better care for Parkinson’s disease
The use of digital health technologies across health care and drug development has accelerated. A new paper titled Digital Progression Biomarkers as Novel Endpoints in Clinical Trials: A Multistakeholder Perspective, co-authored by experts across diverse disciplines, highlights how new remote monitoring technologies present a tremendous opportunity to advance digital medicine in health care even further, specifically in Parkinson s disease. This perspective paper is co-authored by the academic leader of the largest funded project for digital technologies in Europe, Professor Lynn Rochester, University of Newcastle; European Medicines Agency (EMA) scientific leader, Dr. Maria Tome; young investigator and Ph.D. candidate Reham Badawy; physician and Parkinson s patient, Dr. Soania Mathur; and Dr. Diane Stephenson, Executive Director of the Critical Path for Parkinson s (CPP) Consortium.
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Digital biomarkers: an initiative to help researchers navigate new reality & roles
A joint vision from MOBILISE-D and IDEA-FAST to strengthen R&D in the area of remote monitoring
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Advances in technology have ushered in a new era of remote digital assessment whereby metrics about a patient’s wellbeing are measured via wearable devices, smartphones and apps that can provide objective data in real-world situations. The skills needed to manipulate, manage and develop these new systems and analyse the data they produce will come from a new generation of experts. Two IMI projects working in the field have announced the creation of a standalone entity that will help train and support the researchers and clinicians who will work in this exciting field to maximise the rate of technology uptake and impact.