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Will iPhones Change Medicine--by Turning Us All Into Subjects?
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30.06.2015
For a recent breast cancer study, epidemiologist Kathryn H. Schmitz of the University of Pennsylvania sent out 60,000 letters—and netted 351 women. Walking each participant through the paperwork took 30 minutes or more. Such inefficient methods of finding test subjects have been the norm for medical research.
Yet there's a wealth of data out there from the billion smartphones and 70 million wearable health trackers we buy every year. Their sensors generate terabytes of data every day about our activity, sleep and behavior. Those data would be fantastically useful to medical investigators—if only they could get at them.
For the first time, there's a way. It's free software from Apple called ResearchKit.
Research Kit lets researchers build apps to do the recruitment and data collection for them. You, the participant, know exactly who's getting this information, and you can opt out of any part at any time. The data go directly to the research institution; Apple has no access.
Yet there's a wealth of data out there from the billion smartphones and 70 million wearable health trackers we buy every year. Their sensors generate terabytes of data every day about our activity, sleep and behavior. Those data would be fantastically useful to medical investigators—if only they could get at them.
For the first time, there's a way. It's free software from Apple called ResearchKit.
Research Kit lets researchers build apps to do the recruitment and data collection for them. You, the participant, know exactly who's getting this information, and you can opt out of any part at any time. The data go directly to the research institution; Apple has no access.
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