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Rune Labs announced on June 13, 2022, that it has obtained Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for clinical use of the “Parkinson’s Disease Monitoring” app for the Apple Watch.
Expected to enable long-term patient data collection
The Parkinson’s Disease Monitoring app, developed by Rune Labs, uses the motion sensor built into the Apple Watch to detect symptoms specific to Parkinson’s disease patients.
Brian Pepin, CEO of Rune Labs, said he plans to combine data from the Parkinson’s Disease Monitoring app with brain wave measuring devices to provide patient behavior data that doctors can use for treatment. increase.
This will enable the collection of patient movement data, which is currently performed in a short period of time, continuously for a long period of time.
Monitoring symptoms specific to Parkinson’s disease patients
The Parkinson’s Disease Monitoring app collects data using the Movement Disorder API, which Apple added to the Research Kit in 2018.
In clinical use with Apple Watch, we monitor “tremor of limbs” and “postural instability” peculiar to Parkinson’s disease patients.
Source: Reuters via 9to5Mac
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