Six months after unveiling an asthma research app that harnesses the power of Apple’s iPhone, experts at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York are thrilled with the study's early results.
“We are delighted with the initial results we’ve seen after six months of using Apple’s ResearchKit framework for our Asthma Health app,” said Eric Schadt, professor of genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine, in a press release. “We recruited and enrolled over 8,600 research participants in our study, remotely via the Asthma Health app without direct, in-person, contact.”
Jointly developed with LifeMap Solutions, the app uses Apple’s ResearchKit open source software framework, and aims to make it easy for asthma sufferers to participate in research studies via their iPhones.
The Asthma Health App also taps into Apple’s Health Kit, a tool for developers that lets health and fitness apps work together. When granted permission by the user, the Asthma Health app accesses data from Health Kit to track, for example, asthma inhaler use measured by third-party devices and apps. It can also take advantage of the iPhone’s features such as GPS sensors to gather other relevant health data.
The app broke the geographic barrier that typically limits traditional research to the local area of a university or medical center, according to a spokesman for the Icahn School of Medicine. “For our study, 87 percent of participants live outside of NY and NJ,” he told FoxNews.com, in an email.
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