Parkinson's diagnostic app

A researcher demonstrating the voice screening app
By  Adam Ang 01:15 am October 11, 2022
A research team led by engineers and neurologists at RMIT University has come up with a mobile app that uses a person's voice to screen for Parkinson's disease and severe COVID-19.  HOW IT WORKS The app uses AI to analyse the changes in a person's voice in just 10 seconds. The research gathered voice recordings of people with Parkinson's and a control group saying three sounds – A, O, and M,...
By  Jonah Comstock 12:40 pm November 28, 2016
Since its well-publicized meeting with the FDA in 2013, Apple has continued to meet with the agency regularly as well as to correspond by phone and email, according to emails obtained by MobiHealthNews via a Freedom of Information Act request to the FDA.   These emails show that Apple and the FDA have discussed the App Store review process, the 510(k) process, ResearchKit apps, diagnostic apps,...
By  Jonah Comstock 12:15 pm November 28, 2016
Apple is working closely with the FDA to develop an FDA-regulated app for diagnosing Parkinson’s disease, MobiHealthNews has learned. The insight comes from a batch of emails MobiHealthNews obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request to the FDA. The tech giant held a meeting about Parkinson's at its headquarters in Cupertino in September 2015 attended by a number of neurologists and...