During the keynote, which just ended, Apple has not presented his first show connected and the new MacBook Retina. The firm Apple also unveiled Research Kit, an iPhone application platform whose goal is simple: help researchers in their work by gathering as much information about the disease.
Apple Research Kit, researchers will be able to create applications for specific diseases. Applications that will, among other things, serve as pre-diagnostic tools. One is, for example, for Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, or other asthma or breast cancer.
For example, the Massachusetts General Hospital has developed an application called GlucoSuccess, for people with diabetes. This will allow researchers to better understand the various impacts of the patient’s lifestyle on blood sugar. One way to provide researchers with new tracks on the side of medical treatment, while helping patients to better manage their disease.
Here is what Jeff Williams, senior vice president at Apple during the keynote:
Research Kit will enable the medical community to access a diverse global population.
What must be understood by that is that the goal of this new project is to support the work of researchers. With Research Kit, information faster ascend to the scientific and medical community who will have, in addition to a huge database and also more extensive than before.
Obviously, with such tools, an important question arises, what about data security? On this point, Jeff Williams was keen to reassure users by stating that, on the one hand, Apple would not have access to their personal data, on the other hand, the patient will be able to control what information he decides share or not.
The launch of Apple Research Kit is scheduled for next month on American soil and will be supported by all generations of iPhone from the iPhone 5. So far, two applications are already available but only for US users.
Apple Research Kit: how Apple will help medical research
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