How Apple’s ResearchKit Could Support Device Makers in Conducting Clinical Trials (emdt)
Apple says its ResearchKit software will enable researchers and healthcare professionals to gather information on a scale that the company says could potentially reach “hundreds of millions of users.”
“It is already happening to a large degree,” Greg Caressi, senior vice president, healthcare and life sciences, for Frost & Sullivan, told European Medical Device Technology. “Device makers are creating products that can be used by consumers in their homes to support remote monitoring applications.”
ResearchKit is used with Apple’s iPhone for access to an individual’s health data in real time, such as weight, blood pressure, glucose levels, and asthma inhaler use. ResearchKit can also access the iPhone’s accelerometer, microphone, gyroscope, and GPS sensors to gain insight into a patient’s gait, motor impairment, fitness, speech, and memory to test and monitor diseases such as Parkinson’s.
The main feature of ResearchKit is to support companies to carry out clinical trials and healthcare professionals to collect information on a much larger and more efficient scale from individuals on a daily ...
