Open-science nonprofit
Sage Bionetworks has released promising data from a study of its iPhone app for
Parkinson's. The news is a feather in the organization's cap as it forges ahead with its technology and fleshes out the system
to help researchers develop better insights into the disease.
More
than 9,500 individuals with Parkinson's over the past 6 months logged
data using Sage's mPower app, and the organization found a huge
variation
of symptoms among patients. Sage also saw different patterns in how
patients took their medicine and their corresponding symptoms. The
information could help scientists target better windows of intervention
and also allow healthcare professionals to tailor
treatment to patients, Sage said in a statement.
The
app tracks patients' daily experiences to give scientists a better idea
about their symptoms. mPower, which Sage developed with funding from
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, uses iPhone sensors to measure
patients' dexterity, balance and gait, memory and vocal characteristics.
The app also tracks when patients take their meds.
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