Pfizer and IBM are launching an innovative new research project focused on Parkinson’s disease, which the companies hope will ultimately help deliver better care to patients and speed up clinical trials for new drugs.
The “blue sky” approach will use a system of hundreds of off-the-shelf sensors and mobile devices to provide real-time, around-the-clock disease symptom information to researchers and doctors. It will then leverage IBM’s machine learning capabilities to find unique connections between recorded symptoms and other clinical data, such as timing and dosing of medicine.
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