Apple ’s attempt to revolutionise aesculapian studies appear off to a strong start . Just one solar day after the ship’s company released the first five apps using the new ResearchKit framework , 11,000 iPhone users contract up for one of the studies .
Stanford Researchers were amazed at the response for the MyHeart Counts app that study heart health by measuring a user ’s daily activity , fitness level , and other factor . “ To get 10,000 people recruit in a aesculapian written report unremarkably , it would take a yr , ” Alan Yeung , medical director of Stanford Cardiovascular Health , toldBloomberg Business .
ResearchKit is a novel developer model from Apple that seek to draw rein the immense drug user base of the iPhone to facilitate recruit people for aesculapian studies . The framework allows developers to take advantage of the iPhone ’s various sensors to help monitor activity levels or collect information fromApple ’s HealthKit weapons platform .
Apple ’s ResearchKit is arrange for a public release in April . Until then there are only five apps that are using the new framework include studies on Parkinson ’s disease , Asthma , diabetes , and breast Cancer the Crab — as well as the aforementioned heart wellness study .
Why this matters : You could chalk up this first ResearchKit success to excitement and curiosity about a newfangled agency to employ the iPhone and maybe it is . But long term , ResearchKit could still be a big help to medical researchers even if it only aid inscribe the great unwashed in direct contact with the research institution . It ’s not that hard , after all , to download an app . Given that ResearchKit is open source it could also be forked to work on other platform , further expanding ResearchKit ’s reach .
