Telemedicine expands reach of care for Parkinson's patients

Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 08:21 in Health & Medicine

A unique and innovative telemedicine project is providing distant nursing home patients with Parkinson's disease access to neurologists at the University of Rochester Medical Centre. A pilot study of the project - the results of which were released this month at the International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders in Paris - demonstrates that the system can improve the quality of life and motor function of patients...

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