PDMonitor is a non-invasive continuous monitoring system for use from patients with Parkinsons disease.

The system is composed of a set of wearable Monitoring Devices, a mobile application, which enables patients/caregivers to record medication, nutrition and non-motor status information as complementary information for the motor symptom assessment, and a physician tool, which graphically presents to the healthcare professional all patient related information.

It is intended to trace record, process and store a variety of motor and non-motor symptoms frequently presented in Parkinsons disease, by the continuous use of a set of wearable monitoring devices.

The system can be used at any stage of the disease after its initial diagnosis and when the patients are under medical treatment.

Movement information derived from the recordings and disease symptoms with their intensities, after appropriate data processing, is presented to the treating healthcare professional in a comprehensive way. The reports will be at the disposal and judgment of the attending healthcare professional and could allow for a better and objective assessment and understanding of the patients symptom condition related to the Parkinsons Disease through the Physician Tool.

The motor symptom information is accompanied by other data, collected through the smartphone of the patient/caregiver related to the patient lifestyle, cognitive condition, diet, activity, etc. (i.e. non-motor symptoms). The system can provide a picture of the patient health status to the healthcare professional, along with detailed information in various time periods and a friendly environment for the healthcare professional to make a change in the patients therapeutic plan, which can be communicated through the PDMonitor system to the patient/caregiver.

Three actors compose the PDMonitor ecosystem: (a) patients being at any stage of the disease, (b) caregivers formal (nurses, volunteers) or informal (relatives, family, volunteers) appointed for specific patients, (c) healthcare professionals (medical doctors Neurologists experts in movement disorders or Neurologists or General Practitioners.

The system provides a closed loop of interaction among the patient, the caregiver and the medical doctor and at the same time provide a repository of most of the patient health status related data.

The patient can acquire the system from PD Neurotechnology Ltd and he could be paired to a healthcare professional who provides the followup in the monitoring data and the communication with the patient / caregiver through the system. The patient could use the system only after having the agreement with the Healthcare Professional who is obliged to be trained, and registered to PDNeurotechnology Ltd in the use of the PDMonitor system (certified by PD Neurotechnology Ltd. as PDMonitor Healthcare Professional). Both, the patient and the Healthcare Professional are registered users of the PDMonitor System.

Access to the system has any patient suffering from Parkinsons disease, who is treated by a healthcare professional.

Throughout the year, the patient is able to follow his or her progress, through the mobile application, perform simple tasks through the specific section of the application and interact with the doctor and the caregiver in a simple, coherent and value adding manner.

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