Abstract: A method and apparatus are for determining a medical biomarker indicative of a neurodegenerative disease. The method includes receiving motion data from a sensor held or mounted for rotation with a body part of the user during a repeated rotational motion of the body part. The motion data are provided relative to a frame of reference associated with the sensor. The motion data are processed to identify orientation in the frame of reference associated with the sensor of primary, secondary, and tertiary axes of rotation for the motion of the body part of the user, each of the primary, secondary and tertiary axes being mutually perpendicular to one another. A medical biomarker is extracted by analysing the rotational motion of the body part of the user about the primary, secondary and tertiary axes.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method performed at a health study management system collects health-related data from data sources, including sensors monitoring system users. A modular data ingestion subsystem includes interface modules adapted to receive health-related data from a respective type of data source. A modular data processing subsystem includes processing modules, processing health-related data to determine derived health indicators. The system receives configuration information for a health study using the health study management system, the configuration information specifying data collection activities, for collecting respective health-related data. The data collection activities include sensor-based data collection activities associated with a sensor type for collecting sensor data, and processing collected sensor data. The data ingestion subsystem and data processing subsystem are configured for the health study.

Abstract: A method is performed in a health study management system for collecting health-related data from user devices associated with participants in a health study. The health-related data may include: data indicative of user health, and source data from which data indicative of user health can be derived. The method includes receiving a health study configuration specifying data collection activities for a health study and scheduling information for the data collection activities. For each study participant, a data collection configuration is generated including schedule data based on the health study configuration for a user device associated with the study participant. The schedule data defines a schedule of data collection activities performed at the user device, each data collection activity obtaining respective health-related data for the study participant. The data collection configuration generated is transmitted to each user device to configure data collection activities to be performed at the user device.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method performed at a health study management system collects health-related data from data sources, including sensors monitoring system users. A modular data ingestion subsystem includes interface modules adapted to receive health-related data from a respective type of data source. A modular data processing subsystem includes processing modules, processing health-related data to determine derived health indicators. The system receives configuration information for a health study using the health study management system, the configuration information specifying data collection activities, for collecting respective health-related data. The data collection activities include sensor-based data collection activities associated with a sensor type for collecting sensor data, and processing collected sensor data. The data ingestion subsystem and data processing subsystem are configured for the health study.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method performed at a user device for obtaining health-related data is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, over a communications network, a data collection configuration from a health monitoring system, the data collection configuration comprising schedule data defining a schedule of data collection activities to be performed at the user device, each data collection activity for acquiring at the user device respective health-related data. Based on the schedule data, a target time at which each data collection activity is to be performed is determined; and the data collection activities are initiated at the user device in accordance with their respective determined target times to obtain health-related data for the data collection activities. Result data is then transmitted to the health monitoring system based on the obtained health-related data.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method obtains health-related data at a user device, which runs a data collection application for obtaining health-related data. The data collection application supports data collection in: a sensor-based data collection mode for receiving health-related data from user device sensors, a user data input mode for obtaining health-related data based on user input of a configurable set of health-related data values, and an interactive health assessment mode for executing configurable interactive assessments for obtaining health-related data based on user/device interaction. A health monitoring system sends a data collection configuration, which specifies data collection activities. Each data collection activity is associated with a data collection mode(s) and is performed by the data collection application in accordance with the associated data collection mode to obtain health-related data.