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ResearchKit
ResearchKit is a software toolkit that lets researchers write iPhone apps for medical studies. That’s a huge deal because of the extraordinary number of smartphones and fitness trackers that we’re all carrying around or wearing these days. Monitoring our activity, sleep, heartbeat, and more, these devices track terabytes of useful data every day — but currently that potentially useful data just gets thrown away. Scientists can’t get at it, analyze it, or parse it to draw conclusions about medicine and health.
ResearchKit is the simple, brilliant answer. It could, potentially, unlock that data and safely make it available to researchers — without violating your privacy. You, the phone owner, have total control over how much of your data you want to share, how long you want to share it, and which studies (if any) you want to join.
Why would Apple go to this trouble? To sell more iPhones, right? Not really: Apple made ResearchKit open-source. Microsoft, Samsung, Google, and anybody else are welcome to incorporate it into their software and devices, too. Apple doesn’t make a dime from it — but for medical science, it could be a priceless resource. — David Pogue
ResearchKit is a software toolkit that lets researchers write iPhone apps for medical studies. That’s a huge deal because of the extraordinary number of smartphones and fitness trackers that we’re all carrying around or wearing these days. Monitoring our activity, sleep, heartbeat, and more, these devices track terabytes of useful data every day — but currently that potentially useful data just gets thrown away. Scientists can’t get at it, analyze it, or parse it to draw conclusions about medicine and health.
ResearchKit is the simple, brilliant answer. It could, potentially, unlock that data and safely make it available to researchers — without violating your privacy. You, the phone owner, have total control over how much of your data you want to share, how long you want to share it, and which studies (if any) you want to join.
Why would Apple go to this trouble? To sell more iPhones, right? Not really: Apple made ResearchKit open-source. Microsoft, Samsung, Google, and anybody else are welcome to incorporate it into their software and devices, too. Apple doesn’t make a dime from it — but for medical science, it could be a priceless resource. — David Pogue
