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Findings
Digital health measures for ADRD must align with patient and care partner priorities, including functional daily activities such as remembering object locations and maintaining speech fluency.
Sensor placement, data collection modalities, and algorithmic interpretation significantly impact the accuracy and reliability of digital measures.
While digital cognitive and behavioral assessments have strong potential as clinical endpoints, standardization is needed to ensure regulatory acceptance.
Sleep and mobility disruptions in ADRD can be measured with actigraphy, EEG, and ambient sensor-based approaches, but usability considerations are crucial.
Metadata, including environmental conditions and patient comorbidities, must be accounted for to ensure valid interpretations of digital measures in both research and clinical practice.

Recommendations
Researchers and technology developers should adopt standardized ontologies for digital measures to improve consistency across studies and regulatory submissions.
Digital biomarkers should be selected and validated with reference to patient and care partner needs, ensuring they reflect meaningful aspects of health.
Considerations such as sensor placement, data processing methods, and cultural neutrality of cognitive assessments must be accounted for in study designs.
Clinical trials should incorporate digital health technologies as both exploratory endpoints and potential screening tools for ADRD progression.
Further research is needed to refine algorithms for sleep, mobility, and speech-based digital biomarkers to enhance their predictive power for cognitive decline.

Regulatory Considerations
Digital measures of sleep and mobility have been recognized as potential clinical trial endpoints by regulatory agencies such as the FDA.
Standardized reporting and frameworks should be followed to ensure interoperability and data integrity in digital health studies.
Developers must document and validate scoring algorithms used for cognitive and behavioral assessments to meet regulatory expectations.
Data privacy and security regulations must be adhered to, particularly when collecting real-world behavioral and biometric data.
Ongoing validation and real-world evidence generation are necessary to establish digital measures as reliable clinical and regulatory endpoints in ADRD research.