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Stanford's ResearchKit app gained more users in 24 hours than most medical studies find in a year

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<p>Apple’s attempt to revolutionize medical studies appears off to a strong start. Just one day after the company released the first five apps (http://www.macworld.com/article/2895552/first-medical-apps-built-with-apples-researchkit-wont-share-data-for-commercial-gain.html) using the new ResearchKit framework (http://www.macworld.com/article/2894672/apple-aims-to-help-medical-studies-with-researchkit-software-framework.html), 11,000 iPhone users signed up for one of the studies.</p><p>Stanford Researchers were amazed at the response for the MyHeart Counts app that studies heart health by measuring a user’s daily activity, fitness level, and other factors. “To get 10,000 people enrolled in a medical study normally, it would take a year,” Alan Yeung, medical director of Stanford Cardiovascular Health, told Bloomberg Business (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-11/apple-researchkit-sees-thousands-sign-up-amid-bias-criticism).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2895941/stanfords-researchkit-app-gained-more-users-in-24-hours-than-most-medical-studies-find-in-a-year.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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