Acceptability and clinical usefulness of a telemonitoring and telerehabilitation system in people with Parkinson’s Disease in different disease stages: preliminary findings from the RAPIDO study

Telemonitoring and telerehabilitation techniques are significant approaches for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) to improve their clinical health status. In this work, we present a system to monitor people with PD during their physical exercise sessions. Wearable devices are used to collect 24-hour health parameters, that are successively stored on a remote server and then analyzed. A clinical and technical analysis has been conducted on this data; the second one exploits techniques such as the Tukey test, PCA technique, and the K-means clustering algorithm. The main goal is to identify changes in patients’ health status over 3 months (monitoring period) and assess the acceptability of the system.