The second three semi-finalists for the iMedicalApps Medicine 2.0 Research award include a data how thousands of patients use a drug adherence app, an entirely iPhone based frailty test, and a new way for health teams to communicate.
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New Nike+ FuelBand measures movement and encourages active lifestyle
Nike+ FuelBand is an innovative wristband that tracks and measures everyday movement to motivate and inspire people to be more active.
Using smartphones for objective diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s patients
More than 10 million people in the US suffer from tremor-related disease, including Parkinson’s, essential tremor and multiple sclerosis. This fact presents a major business opportunity for the innovator who develops a Smartphone App capable of capturing and contextualizing patient tremor data in remotely in real-time for purposes of developing a truly objective and standardized diagnostic system. Delano, along with his co-principal investigator Brian Parise at the George Tech Research Institute (GTRI), believes they have developed precisely such a solution.
