Home monitoring of patients with Parkinson's disease via wearable technology and a web-based application

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2010:2010:4411-4. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627124.

Abstract

Objective long-term health monitoring can improve the clinical management of several medical conditions ranging from cardiopulmonary diseases to motor disorders. In this paper, we present our work toward the development of a home-monitoring system. The system is currently used to monitor patients with Parkinson's disease who experience severe motor fluctuations. Monitoring is achieved using wireless wearable sensors whose data are relayed to a remote clinical site via a web-based application. The work herein presented shows that wearable sensors combined with a web-based application provide reliable quantitative information that can be used for clinical decision making.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acceleration*
  • Clothing
  • Home Care Services
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / instrumentation*
  • Parkinson Disease / diagnosis*
  • Parkinson Disease / physiopathology*
  • Software*
  • Telemedicine / instrumentation*
  • Telemetry / instrumentation*
  • Transducers
  • User-Computer Interface