FDA re­jects Google's push to add vir­tu­al ex­am for Parkin­son’s dis­ease to its smart­watch

The FDA re­cent­ly shot down an at­tempt by Google’s Ver­i­ly to qual­i­fy the ad­di­tion of a vir­tu­al mo­tor ex­am for Parkin­son’s dis­ease to its smart­watch.

In its re­jec­tion let­ter, the agency said the mo­tor ex­am and Ver­i­ly’s al­go­rithm, which sought to as­sess the mo­tor symp­tom sever­i­ty in adults who have been di­ag­nosed with the de­bil­i­tat­ing dis­ease, are “lim­it­ed in their ca­pac­i­ty to eval­u­ate mean­ing­ful as­pects of con­cepts of in­ter­est that are rel­e­vant to the pa­tients’ abil­i­ty to func­tion in day-to-day life.”

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