Digital Diary

The Digital Diary is intended to give clinicians administering ambulatory blood pressure or ecg recresearchers evaluating pharmaceuticals and biologicals, a device that will improve subject compliancimprove quality of data collected, and reduce time required to collect and analyze data. The Digitalmicrocomputer controlled, having voice conversion/compression circuitry, and real-time clock/calendavoice and database storage. The device will prompt a subject when actions are needed to be taken. Prwill give verbal and/or visual instructions. Responses will be recorded by answering questions displend of the study, subject data would be downloaded through the serial port to a PC for analysis. Durprototypes will be constructed. Data will be collected to determine ease of use and efficacy as a remethods of obtaining activity and mood data. In phase II, the design will be modified to reduce theincorporate improvements resulting from the phase I evaluation. Additional units will be built, andwill be conducted.