mHealth

Study: Wearable sensors and machine learning may well (one day) help detect a broad range of epileptic seizures

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Wear­able Device Clears a First ‘Mile­stone’ in Seizure Detec­tion (Med­scape; requires subscription):

A wrist-worn device that uses machine learn­ing accu­rate­ly detects dif­fer­ent seizure types in find­ings that have the poten­tial to rev­o­lu­tion­ize the man­age­ment of patients with epilepsy.

“We have set a first bench­mark for auto­mat­ic detec­tion of a vari­ety of epilep­tic seizures using wear­able sen­sors and deep-learn­ing algo­rithms. In oth­er words, we have shown for the first time that it’s pos­si­ble to do this,” study inves­ti­ga­tor Jian­bin Tang, MA, Data Sci­ence Project Lead, IBM Research Aus­tralia, Vic­to­ria, told Med­scape Med­ical News. [Read more…] about Study: Wear­able sen­sors and machine learn­ing may well (one day) help detect a broad range of epilep­tic seizures

Mindstrong Health identifies digital biomarkers of cognitive function using smartphone data

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mHealth Research on Men­tal Health Taps Into One’s Tap­ping Habits (mHealth Intelligence):

“Health­care providers look­ing to use mHealth in behav­ioral health treat­ment have long strug­gled to make the tech­nol­o­gy unob­tru­sive. But recent research sug­gests that remote mon­i­tor­ing of peo­ple with men­tal health issues could be done by ana­lyz­ing their smart­phone habits.

A recent report in the jour­nal NPJ Dig­i­tal Med­i­cine sug­gests that a smart­phone app that col­lects user activ­i­ty in the back­ground can help tele­men­tal health­care providers mea­sure that user’s dai­ly habits and detect when those habits devi­ate. By com­bin­ing [Read more…] about Mind­strong Health iden­ti­fies dig­i­tal bio­mark­ers of cog­ni­tive func­tion using smart­phone data

Survey finds significant promise for home-based, data-rich cognitive therapy among stroke survivors

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ConstantTherapyTele­health Sees Suc­cess in Ther­a­py (MHealth Intelligence):

“Tele­health-based ther­a­py pro­grams for stroke sur­vivors have helped increase cog­ni­tive and lan­guage skills and enabled patients to receive ther­a­py five times more often, accord­ing to one com­pa­ny. [Read more…] about Sur­vey finds sig­nif­i­cant promise for home-based, data-rich cog­ni­tive ther­a­py among stroke survivors

Grand Rounds: 22 Health and Medicine Questions and Answers

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Wel­come to Grand Rounds, the week­ly col­lec­tion of best health and med­ical blog posts. This week we invite you to enjoy a broad range of insights, tips, and first-hand sto­ries, pre­sent­ed as a Q&A con­ver­sa­tion with blog­gers will­ing to answer, below, a total of 22 good questions.

On Health and Medicine

  1. What can one-word pre­scrip­tions deliver
  2. How does food pro­cess­ing change food´s nutri­tion­al value
  3. Can diet Increas­es Risk of ADHD
  4. Is alco­holism an illness
  5. What´s bet­ter: steady dete­ri­o­ra­tion over 10 years, or sym­p­­tom-free life for 9 years fol­lowed by rapid dete­ri­o­ra­tion in year 10

On Patient Life

  1. As we talk about wellness…what about devel­op­ing self-compassion
  2. Can patients with chron­ic pain still live a full life
  3. What is the patient-doc­tor eti­quette for using Face­book and Twitter
  4. Should patients in an ide­al world con­tract direct­ly with their doctors
  5. What are patient advo­cates focus­ing on these days

On Health Care pro­fes­sion­als [Read more…] about Grand Rounds: 22 Health and Med­i­cine Ques­tions and Answers