Apple VP Jeff Williams revealing CareKit. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Today, Apple introduced the open source software framework, CareKit, which can be used to develop healthcare apps. Apple plans to release the software in April, and the company said it's aimed at making things easier for users to track their health, monitor symptoms, medications, and treatment responses, and then quickly share that data with medical professionals and loved ones.
The company hopes that CareKit will see the same success as the similar platform, ResearchKit, a framework for developing medical research apps. So far, developers and researchers have already started using the ResearchKit platform to develop apps that help diagnose and monitor autism symptoms in young children, help Alzheimer’s patients personalize their care plans, and collect data from epileptics to one day be able to sense an oncoming seizure. Last week, Harvard researchers announced a ResearchKit app to help professional football players track their mental and physical health.
To coincide with today's event, 23andMe announced a new ResearchKit module that will allow its customers to easily share genetic data directly with researchers—streamlining the consent process and securely transferring data directly from 23andMe to a research institution.
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