Ondrej Holzman Since Monday, the Watch and the new MacBook have been the most talked about, but while we're still waiting for those two products, another big news announcement has already started to reap success. Through the platform ResearchKit thousands of people have already been involved in medical research.
New healthcare platform ResearchKit, thanks to which everyone can remotely participate in the research of various diseases using their iPhone, Apple devoted quite a lot of time to Monday's keynote, and although the talk was mainly about hardware news, a big surprise awaited medical researchers the next day.
As of Monday, Apple released several applications, and Stanford University already registered 11 people registered for the cardiovascular research program on Tuesday. "It normally takes one year and 10 medical centers from around the country to recruit 50 people for medical research," he said pros Bloomberg Alan Yeung, who is currently engaged in cardiovascular research at Stanford.
“This is the power of the phone,” Yeung added. ResearchKit, coupled with the iPhone, gives doctors truly unprecedented opportunities to recruit huge numbers of volunteers for research that can be more successful because of it.
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So far, five research centers have released their application, which uses accelerometers, gyroscopes and GPS sensors to monitor the development of chronic diseases such as Parkinson's disease or asthma.
Lisa Schwartz z Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice pointed out that collecting large amounts of data from people who may not even have a particular disease or do not represent an ideal sample for testing can create obstacles in research. Only time will tell how effective ResearchKit is, but at the moment it is very encouraging for doctors to find that they can now very easily recruit volunteers that are otherwise difficult to find.
this is good enough.
applications are only available in the US appstore. Similar to iTunes Radio.