title: Home monitoring of patients with Parkinson's disease via wearable technology and a web-based application.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA. spatel19@partners.org
authors.forename: Shyamal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Bor-Rong
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Buckley
authors.forename: Ramona
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rednic
authors.forename: Doug
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McClure
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tarsy
authors.forename: Ludy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shih
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dy
authors.forename: Matt
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Welsh
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bonato
mesh_terms: D000054:Acceleration; D003020:Clothing; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014159:Transducers; D014584:User-Computer Interface