ResearchKit now open to developers

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During the Keynote last March, Tim Cook presented a new framework called ResearchKit whose objective is to make available to researchers the data of iPhone users (with their consent, of course…) to then allow them to analyze mass data, and advance research.

If the program had been announced, it was not currently available and only six applications had been developed in this context. To cite them all, this is what they collect data for: asthma, breast cancer, stroke, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease. An official press release announces today the availability of ResearchKit for all developers who wish to support research. They will have the possibility of creating an application which can alternate surveys with the general public, or physical exercises.

In the conference hosted by Tim Cook, we notably had the application dedicated to Parkinson's disease in action, which asked the user to hold a sound over time to record the tremors in the voice. In addition to voice, physical performance can also be measured and recorded. But that's not all: ResearchKit is open source, so the whole community can offer exercises to advance research.

60,000 ResearchKit users

In just one month, Apple is pleased to have attracted no less than 60,000 users to make available the data recorded by their iPhone for research. Compared to the 700 million iPhones sold by the brand, this figure is unconvincing to my taste. But with the scale that the ResearchKit program will take on once many applications go online, one can imagine that this number will quickly increase.

Source: BusinessWire

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