Telemedicine Systems to Support Parkinson's Participatory Management

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's affecting mainly people over 60 years. Due to the population fast aging and forecast of a great increase in the number of PD patients, this disease has been the focus of abundant attention from the scientific community. Telemedicine, an area known for providing healthcare services at a distance, has taken a great interest in PD. In this work the design and development of a multimedia platform intended to allow a better Parkinson's remote home monitoring through an easy accessible, highly usable, and integrated system is presented. The proposed system provides diversified solutions to obtain more patient's daily living and quality of life information.

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Diogo Menezes Borges got his MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering at FEUP in 2015. Due to always being fascinated with Medicine and Engineering the author, for his master's, opted for an area of studies that would allow the junction of these two fields. Therefore, the present work was developed according to the guidelines of Telemedicine.