Mobile and pervasive computing technologies and the future of Alzheimer's clinical trials
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P Murali Doraiswamy1, Vaibhav A Narayan2, Husseini K Manji2
11Neurocognitive Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Health System, and the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Durham, NC 27710 USA.
Abstract:
The rapid growth of mobile phones, automated speech recognizing personal assistants, and internet access among the elderly provides new opportunities for incorporating such technologies into clinical research and personalized medical care. Alzheimer's disease is a good test case given the need for early detection, the high rate of clinical trial failures, the need to more efficiently recruit patients for trials, and the need for sensitive and ecologically valid trial outcomes.
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