Last year’s release of Apple ResearchKit sent shock waves throughout the medical research community as a number of new smartphone apps launched to help doctors and scientists quickly gather data for their studies. SageBionetworks, the nonprofit research group that developed mPower (one of the first ResearchKit apps), today released data from more than 9,500 of its app users, making it available to researchers worldwide to accelerate understanding of Parkinson’s Disease. The dataset released
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IBM Launches SleepHealth App, Unveils Watson Health for ResearchKit
Today at HIMSS16, IBM Watson Health and the American Sleep Apnea launched the SleepHealth app to help identify connections between sleep habits and health outcomes. SleepHealth is the first ResearchKit study to run on the data-rich Watson Health Cloud that will enable participants to easily complete tasks and submit surveys right from the SleepHealth app. SleepHealth Study Overview In concert with researchers, physicians and patient advocates in the US, the SleepHealth study will
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Mount Sinai, LifeMap Expands Asthma Health Research App to UK and Ireland
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and LifeMap Solutions today announced international expansion of the free Asthma Health app to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Backed by Apple's ResearchKit platform, Asthma Health enables individuals with asthma to participate in a large-scale medical research study by simply using iPhone.
The Asthma Health app Overview
The Asthma Health app is designed to facilitate asthma patient education and self-monitoring, promote positive behavioral changes,
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NYU Langone Researchers Use ResearchKit App to Track Concussions
This week, Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center unveiled the NYU Langone Concussion Tracker app for iPhone and Apple Watch that can track concussions during the critical six week following their diagnosis. Created by clinicians and IT experts at NYU Langone, the app offers a new way to engage patients in studies that use digital tools to shape clinical care. The NYU Langone Concussion Tracker app will be used to track patient-reported symptoms during the six-week recovery period.
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ResearchKit: 3 Things Every Researcher Should Know
Most medical studies are lucky to have a few hundred people interested in participating. But imagine being able to tap into an enormous pool of Apple users: Out of the millions who use Apple phones and watches, if even a few thousand showed interest in a medical study, that could make a significant difference in outcomes and how quickly a particular study yields results. That’s one of the most promising points of the Apple ResearchKit. The ResearchKit is an open-source tool designed to allow
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New Instagram-Like App Embeds Heart Data for Social Sharing
The University of Southern California (USC) Center for Body Computing (CBC) and Medable Inc. has launched an Instagram-like app called Biogram that lets users embed heart rate data into a photo distributed to social media via a photo-sharing network. Developed by using ResearchKit, the Biogram app will help researchers better understand how publicly sharing biometrics influences personal relationships and experiences in a social community. Biogram Research Study Overview As part of the
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Apple ResearchKit Now Available To All Medical Researchers
Apple has announced that ResearchKit, an open source software framework designed for medical and health research that helps doctors, scientists and other researchers gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using mobile devices, is now available to researchers and developers. The platform was first launched last month with five inaugural research apps developed using ResearchKit study asthma, breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease,
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Apple Releases ResearchKit Guidelines for App Developers
Three days after the announcement of its open source medical research platform ResearchKit, Apple has now released guidelines for the application developers to protect users’ privacy, safety and rights. In Section 27 of the app store review guidelines, Apple states that "apps using the HealthKit framework or conducting human subject research for health purposes, such as through the use of ResearchKit, must comply with applicable law for each Territory in which the App is made available." The
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11k Sign Up for Apple’s ResearchKit In Less Than 24 Hours
In less than 24 hours after the launch of Apple's ResearchKit platform, Stanford University researchers announced that 11,000 people have already signed up for a cardiovascular study, Bloomberg reports. The new open source software framework is designed to help doctors and scientists recruit more participants in medical research studies needed to provide a more useful representation of the population using iPhone apps. With a user’s consent, ResearchKit can seamlessly tap into the pool of useful
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