Novel Digital Studies
Technology-enabled solutions are a powerful tool to ensure that individuals can access care regardless of physical location. The Center for Health + Technology is looking at the potential for smartphones, sensors, and wearables to capture frequent and objective measures in real-world settings.
A Few of Our Recent Studies
WATCH-PD
Evaluate the ability of sensors to assess features and progression of symptoms in early, untreated Parkinson’s disease. Compare sensor assessments at home and in the clinic to traditional in-person assessments.
Scratch and Sleep Quantification in Atopic Dermatitis (SQUAD)
Assess the use of wearable devices, sensors, polysomnography, and video to detect and quantify scratching. Evaluate the relationship between patient-reported outcomes and scratching and sleep metrics from wearable devices and sensors.
AT-HOME PD
Evaluate clinical outcomes using video visits in a virtual national observational study. Capture real-world data using a Parkinson’s disease-specific smartphone application.
Valor-PD
Use video visits to evaluate the longitudinal change in individuals at genetic risk (due to mutations in the LRRK2 gene) of Parkinson’s disease. Develop a cohort of participants ready for clinical trials of gene-directed therapies.