Abstract
The increasing prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases consists of main challenges for healthcare systems. Patients with neurodegeneration diseases benefit from multidisciplinary care. E-health platforms are designed for monitoring and management of symptoms of patients with neurodegeneration disease in everyday life. They are valuable, feasible, and well-accepted by both patients and clinicians. Sensors and wearable devices collect data from patients and are uploaded to the cloud for storing and further processing. Then these data are downloaded by clinicians and clinicians put the diagnosis and develop the care plan of patients. The care plan is sent back to cloud and finally to the patient. Various e-Health platforms have been designed and developed in order to improve the quality of life of patients with neurodegeneration diseases. Some of them are gait-assist system, PERFORM system, CASAS smart home, Mobi 8 ambulatory monitoring system, CuPiD system, accelerometer-based algorithm for detecting Parkinsonian gait, SENSE-PARK system, the PD manager project, the Parkinson@Home study, PD Dr. and the LSVT LOUD program, store and forward method of telemedicine, TiM system, MGH TeleHealth Division, and lexical-semantic stimulation with teleconference technology. E-health platforms can be used to provide patients access to specialist care that is not available to a geographic region. They are a promising medicine module to the treatment and prevention of neurodegenerative diseases.
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Intas, G., Platis, C., Stergiannis, P. (2023). E-Health and Neurodegeneration. In: Vlamos, P., Kotsireas, I.S., Tarnanas, I. (eds) Handbook of Computational Neurodegeneration. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75922-7_35
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