Ricerc@Sapienza

BACKGROUND: Parkinson's disease is a degenerative neurological condition causing multiple motor and non-motor symptoms that have a serious adverse effect on quality of life. Management is problematic due to the variable and fluctuating nature of symptoms, often hourly and daily. The PD_Manager mHealth platform aims to provide a continuous feed of data on symptoms to improve clinical understanding of the status of any individual patient and inform care planning.

Contemporary sensing devices provide reliable mechanisms for continuous process monitoring, accommodating use cases related to mHealth and smart mobility, by generating real-time data streams of numerous physiological and vital parameters. Such data streams can be later utilized by machine learning algorithms and decision support systems to predict critical clinical states and motivate users to adopt behaviours that improve the quality of their life and the society as a whole.