The Perspective of mHealth in the Self-Assessment of the Parkinson’s Disease. Comment on Kalafati et al. Testing of Motor Coordination in Degenerative Neurological Diseases. Healthcare 2022, 10, 1948

Abstract

Regarding the research article “Maria Kalafati, Athanasios Kakarountas and Elisabeth Chroni, Testing of Motor Coordination in Degenerative Neurological Diseases”, published in Healthcare [...]

Bridging the Gap: Exploring Opportunities, Challenges, and Problems in Integrating Assistive Technologies, Robotics, and Automated Machines into the Health Domain

“…To explore the opportunities, challenges, issues, and bottlenecks of integrating these tools (alone or interconnected) into the domain, this Special Issue [10] was initiated in May 2022, and was subsequently completed in January 2023. This Special Issue collected 17 contributions plus an editorial [1,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27], and covered a wide range of topics, including:…”

“…Giansanti D. commented in [23] on the study by Kalafati et al [22], discussing the important perspectives of the tool to pave the way for the application of self-assessments by means of mHealth in PD.…”

“…The interest in topics on digital health and telehealth, whether integrated with AI (as, for example, in a study on a software for orthodontics [11]) or not, for web-based psychological studies on the elderly [13], for studies on the factors influencing their use [16], and for studies focused on innovative applications in PD [22], with interesting prospects for self-assessment [23];…”