GKC announced today that it has appointed John Schellhorn as its new President and CEO. Schellhorn will also be joining the company’s Board of Directors.
Schellhorn joins GKC with a proven track record to spearhead the company's accelerated growth strategy to meet the demand for its lead product, the PKG™ system.
Dr. Rajesh Pahwa is using an mHealth wearable to gain a better understanding of what his Parkinson's patients go through every day. In essence, he's now 'riding the roller coaster' with them.
Rajesh Pahwa, MD, has long treated his Parkinson's disease patients by sitting them down and asking them how each day has gone in between doctor's visits. Now he's using an mHealth wearable to better understand those days.
Global Kinetics Corporation (GKC), announced today it has recently received Notice of Allowance for U.S. patent application 12/997540, protecting the company's lead product, the Personal KinetiGraph (PKG) (Parkinson's Kinetigraph outside of the U.S.) system, which the company is marketing in the U.S. The patent application pertains to the objective measurement of bradykinesia. Bradykinesia, or slowness of movement, is one of the most common symptoms, and a defining feature, of Parkinson's disease. The capacity to continuously measure this movement symptom underpins the PKG system. Read more...
As healthcare systems around the world struggle with caring for ageing populations and managing the costs of the growing epidemic of chronic disease, the opportunities for innovative, technology-based solutions to bridge the gap are stronger than ever.
A key US-based publication for Parkinson's has published a feature article on GKC's recently presented 10,000 report database study.
Global Kinetics Corporation, a leader in digital health technology for people with Parkinson’s disease, has developed a dataset of more than 10,000 reports of symptoms from patients with PD.
The company said the database was used to analyse symptomology from patients across the globe and presented in a poster at the recent International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders.
