Apple today announced ResearchKit, a software framework designed for medical and health research that helps doctors, scientists and other researchers gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using mobile devices, is now available to researchers and developers. The first research apps developed using ResearchKit study asthma, breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease, and have enrolled over 60,000 iPhone users in just the first few weeks of being available on the App Store. Starting today, medical researchers all over the world will be able to use ResearchKit to develop their own apps and developers can also contribute new research modules to the open source framework.
It’s on github.
And make it open source.
A smart move i would say.
i agree
i think this is a fantastic technology / service one that will really benefit researchers, thats a whole heap of valuable data that they would not otherwise have access too.
I know it won’t happen but it would be great with Google and Microsoft took this code up too and started implementing it in their os’s, putting competition aside for the greater good.
This is both wanted and feared by researchers. Quite a few researchers collect, analyse and sell the kind of researchdata that might now become available for free. Of course that is “good for society and bad for those researchers” so on a global scale it seems like this will be benificiary.
I do hope that this will be widely adopted and the amount of attention this is getting might make that happen. But related initiatives from the past paint a less positive adoption rate: https://account.healthvault.co.uk/nl/en-US/Directory