iPhone app able to detect tremors associated with Parkinson’s disease
A doctoral student at Arizona State University, Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) is currently developing a customized app that will be able to detect tremors associated with Parkinson’s disease. In order to use the app, a Parkinson patient simply has to either hold the smartphone in their hand or to touch the device to their ankle for 30 seconds and then tap the screen. This allows the accelerometer, which can be found in the majority of smartphones on the market today, to record movement.  The application can then transmit the information to the patient’s doctor, so that he can log in and review the measurements. Read more