Articles and Insights About Wearables for Clinical Trials

In collaboration with researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, VivoSense published a new review paper in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. The review summarizes how measures of real-world physical behavior, captured with digital health technologies, can contribute to more holistic assessment of functional independence in Alzheimer’s disease clinical research.

Jen Blankenship, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, moderated a lively discussion with Shelby Bachman, PhD, Research Scientist, and an expert panel about the promise of Digital health technologies (DHTs) like smartphones and wearable sensors to advancing drug development and discovery in neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s disease.

VivoSense is excited to announce a collaboration with Cambridge Cognition to capture measures of cognitive and physical function using digital health tools. Both organizations are united in their interests to develop low-burden and patient-centric digital clinical outcome measures that more comprehensively and holistically capture how individuals function in real-world environments.

At the a2 National Symposium: Empowering Innovation in AI/Tech + Aging, Senior Research Scientist Jen Blankenship, PhD, presented our ongoing work with the Center for Human Health and Performance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to develop digital clinical measures that capture how patients with Alzheimer’s disease function in their real-world environments. 

VivoSense, a trusted leader in the development, validation, and delivery of digital clinical measures, announced today that it has been awarded a research grant funded by the National Institute of Aging (NIA) and the Massachusetts Artificial Intelligence and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging & Alzheimer’s Disease (MassAITC; grant number 5P30AG073107-02 Pilot A2).

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that progresses to impact every dimension of a patient’s life. With no cure and limited options to manage symptoms, research is underway to develop drugs that impact the most burdensome aspects of AD: memory problems and the ability to function independently.