Becker's Healthcare April 25, 2023
Clinicians at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine are using an iPad app designed to detect neurological disorders such as dementia and Parkinson’s disease.
The NIH Toolbox V3 app was developed at Northwestern and is available on the Apple App Store for clinicians to screen patients 3 to 85 years old for cognition, motor functions, senses (such as loss of hearing or smell) and emotion.
A group of screenings that used to take two to three hours can now be done in less than 30 minutes, the developers say.
“The problem in clinical care...