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Apple Opens Health Records API to Developers and Researchers to Create Personalized Apps for Consumers

by Jasmine Pennic 06/05/2018 Leave a Comment

Apple Health Records API

On Monday, Apple released a new Health Records API for developers and researchers that will empower consumers to better manage medications, nutrition plans, diagnosed diseases and more directly from their iPhone. The new API integration with third-party developers will allow patients of more than 500 hospitals and clinics to access medical information from various institutions organized into one view on their iPhone. Consumers will now be able to share their encrypted health records data from
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Apple, Stanford Launches Heart Study App to Identify Irregular Heart Rhythms

by Jasmine Pennic 11/30/2017 Leave a Comment

Apple Launches Heart App Study to Identify Irregular Heart Rhythms

Apple in partnership with Stanford Medicine has announced the  launch of the Apple Heart Study app, a first-of-its-kind innovative research study using Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor to collect data on irregular heart rhythms and notify users who may be experiencing atrial fibrillation (AFib). The Apple Heart Study app uses this technology to identify an irregular heart rhythm.Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), is the most common heart arrhythmia, and a leading cause of stroke. AFib affects more than
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Why We Shouldn’t Call Apple ResearchKit and CareKit ‘Platforms’

by Our Thought Leaders 10/17/2016 Leave a Comment

11k Sign Up for Apple's ResearchKit In Less Than 24 Hours

Editor’s Note: Ryan Rossier is VP of Platform Solutions at Medullan, a digital healthcare consulting firm.It’s no secret that getting people to engage in their health is one of our generation’s biggest challenges.Digital health engagement, especially, is often discussed as “a huge opportunity,” but the reality is that while people are interested in their health, it’s still incredibly difficult to get them to use digital tools consistently. Enacting behavior change is still a mostly elusive
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Medable Launches Axon to Build ResearchKit Apps Without a Developer

by Jasmine Pennic 09/27/2016 Leave a Comment

Medable Axon ResearchKit Apps

Medable, a Palo Alto-based healthcare app and analytics platform, today announced the launch of Axon, a SmartStudy system that enables health experts--researchers, physicians, and others--to build ResearchKit apps without a developer in a matter of hours. By leveraging ResearchKit's platform, Axon unlocks the potential of health professionals to directly collect patient data at massive scale through dedicated mobile apps reducing development time from six months to one day. While there are a lot
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Can a Healthcare App Seal of Approval Foster Innovation?

by Our Thought Leaders 09/26/2016 Leave a Comment

66% of Americans Would Use Mobile Health Apps to Manage Their Health

Editor’s Note: Michelle Longmire, MD is a Stanford-trained physician-entrepreneur and the CEO of Medable Inc., an app and analytics platform for healthcare. Reach her at @LongmireMD. In an effort to protect consumers, Apple has released guidelines for its health apps.  In developer guidelines released this summer, it dictates:  “If your app behaves in a way that risks physical harm, we may reject it.”Apple’s stance on health app safety will be regarded as the first significant industry step
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Apple CareKit: Are Consumers Ready for Tech-Enabled Home Health?

by Erica Garvin 06/14/2016 Leave a Comment

Deloitte’s Harry Greenspun talks about what research is revealing when it comes to consumers and caregivers plugging into tech-enabled home health.What about the doctor-patient relationship? This is the question that many whisper yet few ask directly as technology gives greater rise to remote treatment methods. Take CareKit, released from Apple, Inc. in March, which allows users to collect medical data and share with physicians. Will what’s achievable on screen disrupt the crucial care that
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Boston Children’s Hospital Launches ResearchKit App Feverprints

by HITC Staff 03/29/2016 Leave a Comment

Boston Children's Hospital launches Feverprints ResearchKit study

The Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA) and Autoinflammatory Diseases Clinic at Boston Children's Hospital is launching release Feverprints, a ResearchKit enabled app for iPhone that will enlist the public's help to answer a surprisingly simple but fundamental question in medicine: What, exactly, is a fever? The Feverprints app crowdsources personal information about body temperature, lifestyle and health. Available now to adults in the United States, as well as U.S. children with
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Sage Bionetworks Releases ResearchKit Data from 9,500 Parkinson’s Patients for Researchers Worldwide

by Fred Pennic 03/03/2016 Leave a Comment

Sage Bionetworks Releases ResearchKit Data from 9,500 Parkinson’s Patients for Researchers Worldwide

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

by HITC Staff 03/02/2016 Leave a Comment

Sleep Study App

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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