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Title: Early word on ResearchKit apps: So far, a success Post by: HCK on May 10, 2015, 03:00:11 am Early word on ResearchKit apps: So far, a success
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Apple offered up the iPhone to medical researchers as a new way to collect hard-to-get health data two months ago, and now we have an idea of how the company’s newly open-sourced ResearchKit initiative (http://www.macworld.com/article/2909749/get-ready-for-an-explosion-of-researchkit-apps-collecting-health-data.html) is paying off.</p><p> Mobile health developers LifeMap Solutions worked with New York’s Mount Sinai to develop one of the first ResearchKit apps, Asthma Health (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/asthma-health-by-mount-sinai/id972625668?mt=8), and LifeMap CEO Corey Bridges has a few takeaways eight weeks in.</p><p> Bridges published the first official ResearchKit blog post (http://researchkit.github.io/blog.html) with answers to ResearchKit questions like whether users would continue to use the app after the novelty wore off and how they would react to the e-consent process needed to participate in the asthma study. To participate in medical research, participants usually need to read and sign paper documents to consent to being studied. ResearchKit apps transfer that process to an iPhone app.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2920540/early-word-on-researchkit-apps-so-far-a-success.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Early word on ResearchKit apps: So far, a success (http://www.macworld.com/article/2920540/early-word-on-researchkit-apps-so-far-a-success.html#tk.rss_all) |