Mobilise-D project update: New webinars announced, prior ones published & WP2 conclusion

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) funded Mobilise-D project had the first five public webinars as part of their ongoing Mobilise-D webinar series, and it has been a great success! The recordings are now available on their YouTube channel.

The first five webinars have been twice a month (90 minutes each) and their team has presented and discussed cutting-edge thinking on mobility assessments, our technical validation approach, and examples of data and tools used. They have shared insights into how their research, validation, and evaluation of real-world continuous digital measures of mobility can provide novel insights into health care conditions. They have talked about how digital mobility assessment using wearable sensor systems have the potential to capture walking performance in patient’s natural environment and how a consortium of 34 partner institutions from academy, MedTech industry and Pharma industry can work together in research and beyond.

All recordings will be uploaded to their YouTube channel, and you can find all links in the list below which will be updated continuously:

February 2 – The Algorithms to measure digital mobility outcomes
February 16 – The Experimental Tools – The Mobilise-D multi-modal approach towards validation
March 9 – The Technical Validation Study – Bringing it all together – the Mobilise-D protocol to establish technical validity in different health conditions
March 23 – The Tools for Data Transfer and Analysis – How to leverage insights from real-world digital mobility data (coming soon)
April 6 – The Technical Validation Study – Early insights

They have also added two more webinars to their Webinar Series! The webinars are 1h 30 minutes with the following topics:

May 4 – Up and Go: Planning & Conducting the Clinical Validation Study
June 1 – Putting patients in the centre when developing digital mobility outcomes

The upcoming webinars are free and open to the public.

The work on algorithm development and technical validation has come to an end after three years.

The Mobilise-D webinar series on the Technical Validation Study (TVS) had its fifth and last session on April 9, 2022. In this session, they showed how the sum of every single contribution in WP2 has led to achieving all they had to achieve – despite massive challenges along the way. They demonstrated the data visualisation tool and the great performances of the INDIP system on their patient cohorts and healthy controls. The team also revealed the winning algorithms for the individual analysis blocks and how they combined all blocks into two pipelines, both of which are device agnostic and provide the same results when running on body-attached sensor devices. When these pipelines are used properly (for example, only on walking bouts longer than 10s) their algorithms are valid, not only in healthy adults, but also in the most challenging patient cohort, that is hip fracture. These are amazing results in times of a pandemic and world-wide lockdown and restrictions. After the last TVS webinar, their WP2 academic lead, Professor Claudia Mazzà, had this message to the entire team:

“Congratulations and thank you to everyone for the always smart, challenging and interesting conversations we had during the past three years! It might have been the most challenging project I have been involved in, but it certainly has been the most interesting one!”

Claudia Mazzà

Despite that algorithm development and technical validation formally has come to an end, the team will continue to meet to share and discuss updates on the results, the writing of publications, additional analyses, and supporting activities still ongoing in the other work packages. The success story of Mobililse-D continues 🙂