digital biomarkers

The platform assesses cognitive and motor function via at-home assessments that generate digital biomarkers and a predictive score, supporting the early detection of Parkinson's.

This week's top stories include projections that hospitals could lose $54 billion this year, Apple looking to add a feature that could detect potential mental illness, and a link found between ransomware and increased mortality rate.

Medidata said the deal will help better integrate clinical-grade metrics into its remote trial platform and broadly support the use of wearable sensors for clinical research.

The latest round brings the company's funding total to $160 million. 

In this grab-bag episode of HIMSSCast, Laura Lovett, an editor at MobiHealthNews, chats with host Jonah Comstock about three recent in-person reporting experiences here in the Boston area, where MobiHealthNews is based. They included an office visit to the Division of Digital Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Patient Safety in a Digital World symposium held at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the MassChallenge Health Tech Accelerator's Opening Night. Articles referenced in today's episode: As digital becomes the new norm in healthcare, how is patient safety being considered? In-depth: Beth Israel's digital psychiatry division looks to integrate passive, active phone data into patient care