{"id":3245,"date":"2015-03-11T09:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T09:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2015-03-11T09:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T09:10:27","slug":"apple-unveils-new-medical-software-called-researchkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/apple-unveils-new-medical-software-called-researchkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Unveils New Medical Software Called ResearchKit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3246\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3246 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch-300x200.jpg\" alt=\" the new Apple Watch is modeled during a media event in Cupertino, Calif. \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Apple Watch is modeled during a media event in Cupertino, Calif.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Apple unveiled a new mobile health program today called ResearchKit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jeff Williams, Apple&#8217;s senior vice president of operations, discussed the new initiative with the gathered crowd of journalists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This software will let iPhone users turn their devices into diagnostic tools and get involved in a vast range of medical research,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #b8292f;\" href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2015\/03\/09\/apples-new-health-app-researchkit-turns-iphone-into-diagnostics-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">according to Recode.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Apple teamed up with a variety of medical institutions like UCLA,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #b8292f;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dana-farber.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dana-Farber Cancer Institute<\/span><\/a>, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Rochester, Mt. Sinai Hospital\u00a0and Xuanwu Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #b8292f;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/3\/9\/8176271\/researchkit-apple-iphone-users-medical-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Verge<\/span><\/a>\u00a0mentioned that the University of Oxford and Stanford University were partners in this endeavor too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">UCLA and Dana-Farber are working on a tool to assist with breast cancer research, and\u00a0Mass General\u2019s app measures glucose levels. University of Rochester and Xuanwu Hospital made an application for\u00a0<a style=\"color: #b8292f;\" href=\"http:\/\/parkinsonmpower.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Parkinson\u2019s capable of measuring voice or hand tremors.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #b8292f;\" href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apple\/2015\/03\/09\/apple-announces-researchkit-to-help-medical-researchers-collect-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Next Web reports\u00a0<\/span><\/a>that Mt. Sinai&#8217;s app &#8220;is aimed at helping those affected manage when to use their inhaler and understand\u00a0how often it\u2019s used.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Williams\u00a0assured the audience that all of the data would be safe and secure. The first five apps (mentioned above)\u00a0are available today, but the full suite of tools will be available next month.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple unveiled a new mobile health program today called ResearchKit. Jeff Williams, Apple&#8217;s senior vice president of operations, discussed the new initiative with the gathered crowd of journalists. This software will let iPhone users turn their devices into diagnostic tools and get involved in a vast range of medical research,\u00a0according to Recode.\u00a0 Apple teamed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation","category-techbiz"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",420,280,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",420,280,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",420,280,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",420,280,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",420,280,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",420,280,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",420,280,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",420,280,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",420,280,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",420,280,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",420,280,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",95,63,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",420,280,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt1503_ap_apple_watch.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Laxman Dangol"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/innovation\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Innovation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/techbiz\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}