First ResearchKit app for Apple Watch will track seizures in real time<article>
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Apple made it really easy for doctors to study patients with the
open-sourced ResearchKit framework, which lets researchers create health apps for the iPhone. Now researchers are taking advantage of the Apple Watch’s sensors to get even more data, starting with Johns Hopkins’s new Watch app for epilepsy patients.</p><p>
EpiWatch is the appropriately named new app from the institute’s neurology researchers, which lets people living with epilepsy track their seizures in real time before, during, and after they hit. For patients who experience an aura before their seizures, launching EpiWatch from a complication on the watch face at the first sign of that warning signal will record movements, including falls, and heart rate using the watch’s sensors. The app will also ask patients to play a memory game during the seizure, if possible, to assess cognitive responsiveness.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2993196/software-medical/first-researchkit-app-for-apple-watch-will-track-seizures-in-real-time.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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First ResearchKit app for Apple Watch will track seizures in real time
