Telemedicine

Telemedicine, using simple web-based video conferencing using, for example, the Marvell Plug computer and Google's services can address large unmet needs in clinical care.

Presented by Kevin Biglan, MD, MPH and Ray Dorsey, MD, MBA, University of Rochester the video shares the results of a pilot, randomized controlled trial of increasing specialty access using telemedicine to individuals with Parkinson disease residing in a remote nursing home and remote communities.

The cost of clinical trials is rising, recruiting participants is increasingly difficulty, and monitoring safety is increasingly important. Home and patient appropriate technologies like the Marvell Plug computer and Google products can help address all of these issues. They discuss their efforts to monitor blood pressure remotely using these technologies in a Michael J. Fox funded Parkinson disease clinical trial.