Tech Companies – Do Your Homework First

Our good friend and fellow im-patient living with Parkinson’s, Sara Riggare, has shared a very insightful post on her blog. She makes the suggestions to all tech companies working on solutions for Parkinson’s to do their research first, starting with a simple Google search:

She makes the case that the use of tech for helping people living with complex chronic conditions is not a tech problem. Instead, it is a business model problem.

Read more on her blogpost “I can’t take yet another solution looking for a problem…“, and be sure to check out her PhD thesis that she recently published, titled “Personal science in Parkinson’s disease“. Also highly recommended (in addition to all her other blog posts) is another recent one titled “My 5 top learnings from tracking my Parkinson for over a decade“