Apple announced the launch ResearchKit, a data collection tool to help medical research.

ResearchKit: an Apple application to help medical research

If the Apple keynote of 9 March has mainly emphasized the Apple Watch, another service was unveiled in the background, it is ResearchKit . This application is intended to carry out a careful collection on the health of volunteers to help the scientific community to improve medical research.

ResearchKit: a data collection tool to help medical research

Apple understands the huge market behind the health sector is not willing to give it to one of its biggest competitors (we think including Google, which has worked for years in the development applications or services in the medical field). It is in this context that Apple developed the ResearchKit application.
Jeff Williams, one of Apple officials spoke during the Keynote yesterday and said: " ResearchKit provide the scientific community with access to a diverse population and various means to collect data . " The application is indeed a remarkable health data collecting means. Apple says ResearchKit be the ideal tool to " assist in clinical research for diseases such as asthma, breast cancer, heart disease, Parkinson's disease or diabetes . "

A doctor can directly access weight, glucose, etc. an iPhone owner

The firm at the apple does he seem lost time to make them compatible with many applications to help users and researchers to switch to this service. Found for example on the App Store, applications: Count My Heart (Heart Rate) GlucoseSuccess, Share The Journey (Cancer), Asthma Health, or Parkinson mPower.
In the future, a doctor can view real-time information that the user of an iPhone saves the ResearchKit program through all these applications.There is no doubt that this technology is expected to become democratic in the coming years to get better medical care, to prevent diseases in time to help research ...
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