Boston Children’s Hospital wants your help with a ResearchKit project to measure body temps<div class="feat-image">
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<p>While most people know that normal body temperature is 98.6F/37C, your actual temperature can vary quite a bit during the course of a day, and that can make diagnosing fevers trickier than it might seem. To help get more accurate baseline data, the Boston Children’s Hospital wants your help in logging temperature data across a day.</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Fever is one of the most common signs of illness and causes anxiety to many. Doctors still struggle with determining the cause of a fever. In addition, “normal” and “febrile” temperatures vary between individuals.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s2">Better understandings of how body temperature varies between individuals and identification of disease fever patterns (“feverprints”) could allow doctors to make faster, more accurate diagnoses.</span></p>
<p>The <a href="
http://feverprints.com" target="_blank">Feverprints app[/url] uses the <a href="
http://9to5mac.com/tag/researchkit/" target="_blank">ResearchKit[/url] framework to collect the data. The app of course has no way to measure your temperature, so you’ll need to do that manually, though there are inexpensive <a href="
http://amzn.to/1Y0rJg3" target="_blank">Bluetooth thermometers[/url] available to make the job a little easier.</p>
<p>Apple recently launched a new <a href="
http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/21/carekit-researchkit-updates/" target="_blank">CareKit framework[/url], which provides patients with health data they can share with their physicians and carers.</p>
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Via <a href="http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/03/researchers-are-trying-to-use-an-iphone-app-to-understand-body-temperature/" target="_blank">Gizmodo[/url]</p>
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