ResearchKit
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Doctella wants to help payers and providers build patient-facing apps
Doctella’s approach seeks to cut out the need for hospitals to hire their own software developers, adding to a growing number of health tech toolboxes as healthcare organizations seek new ways to monitor and study their patients through digital health tools.
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AMIA panel: ResearchKit maturing, ResearchStack catching up
What the two platforms are doing are opening up components of clinical trial recruitment, data collection and participant retention to wide audiences of people with specific healthcare conditions.
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Apple’s Tim Cook offers reminder of its healthcare vision behind smart watch
“…the holy grail of the watch is being able to monitor more and more of what’s going on in the body,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in an interview with European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes at the Startup Fest Europe in Amsterdam.
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ResearchKit app to help Boston Children’s study fevers
The hospital hopes to gain insight into a common but oft-neglected condition: fevers.
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Apple’s new CareKit helps design of self-care apps
Apple is positioning the new CareKit as a companion to ResearchKit.
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23andMe integrating with Apple’s ResearchKit on iPhone
The sharing of genetic data will still be a bit complex, however – all that data will rest on 23andMe’s serves, rather than on iPhones.
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Harvard teams with NFLPA on ResearchKit app for football injuries
Thursday, the NFLPA and Harvard’s Football Players Health Study released TeamStudy, an iPhone app built on ResearchKit framework.
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ResearchKit, meet your Android cousin: ResearchStack
There are plans for a publicly available beta test of ResearchStack for the start of 2016, according to project’s website.
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Boston Children’s enlists ResearchKit for hep C study
This study, called C Tracker, will give researchers insight into patients’ daily activity, monitor symptoms and assess the efficacy of treatments.
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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IBM Watson Health sets up HQ in Cambridge, integrates with Apple
Big Blue is opening Watson Health’s global headquarters near Boston and introducing IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences and IBM Watson Care Manager. This comes barely a week after Salesforce debuted a data aggregator called Salesforce Health Cloud.
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Apple ResearchKit’s potential diversity issue and Next Generation ACOs (Morning Read)
Apple iPhone owners are far from a representative group: They tend to be younger, better educated, and wealthier than the many millions of Americans who don’t own one. Read about that as well as a new kind of ACOs, an ongoing battle over arthritis drugs, and a provider M&A deal that went south.