pharmaphorum January 25, 2024
In its second guidance on digital health technologies within a week, NICE has endorsed five remote monitoring devices for patients with Parkinson’s disease that can be used to identify people who could benefit from changes to their care.
The five wearable devices – Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies’ Kinesia 360 and KinesiaU, PD Neurotechnology’s PDMonitor, PKG Health’s Personal KinetiGraph (PKG) and Sense4Care’s STAT-ON – all take the form of sensors designed to harvest movement data such as gait, involuntary movements, and posture.
The latest guidance from the UK health technology assessment (HTA) organisation updates provisional backing for the devices published in 2022, and notes that they can be used by the NHS while further evidence of their benefits is generated.
It stresses,...