IBM and Apple announced this week initiatives that give the phone a new dimension , the device for collecting and analyzing information on various ailments and assist in the diagnostic process.
ResearchKit, the built-in Apple iPhone mobile tool is available from Tuesday for medical researchers who want to develop applications for diagnostic or collect and analyze data on the health.
Once the phone user consent, ResearchKit can access data from user activity, motor functions, memory and others.
In addition, ResearchKit may contact tracking software HealthKit health information, integrated with IOS operating system that allows applications to health using the iPhone sensors and collect data on the user’s weight tool, pressure blood, glucose levels or use of inhalers for asthma, among others.
The first five applications that were developed under the umbrella of ResearchKit investigate asthma, breast cancer, cardiovascular problems, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.
According to Apple, more than 60,000 iPhone users have given permission for collecting data since the launch of the first applications in March.
It is expected that unlimited and open access allows the development of applications beyond those areas and make possible studies that have historically attracted several hundred participants from now attract tens of thousands.
The data share voluntarily Apple users may also be connected from this week IBM supercomputer Watson, capable of processing information equivalent to one million books per second, which became famous in 2011 after defeating the champions of the popular game show Jeopardy.
“We want to be the mastermind behind HealthKit analytical and ResearchKit” the vice president of IBM, John Kelly said this week in a statement to the media.
IBM announced its partnership and Apple, Johnson & amp; Johnson and Medtronic medical device firm to create a new division dedicated to the analysis of data related to health.
The artificial intelligence Watson analyze huge databases on health with the objective of providing valuable information hospitals, doctors, insurers and even individual patients.
Experts and Daniel Kraft, director of the Department of Medicine and Neuroscience at Singularity University (California), believe that mobile will be used increasingly as “devices doctors “
, and allow patients to manage their own health.
The doctor entrepreneur and inventor said in a recent interview with Efe that ” the most interesting trend in the field of health convergence of mobile devices with information that empowers patients. “
Kraft said that mobile devices can now measure the level of blood sugar, hours of sleep or heart rate .
He explained that this is an incipient trend that will continue to evolve and make it possible to combine mobile devices with sensors and data analysis to make the user “own your own health, CEO of their health. “
The researcher says that technological advances increasingly allow individuals” autocuantificarse “, or what is the same, measure things like the number of daily steps, the state of the diabetes or diet.
The doctors of the future, predicts Kraft, ‘prescribe’ apps’ to their patients “to help them lose weight, stop smoking, manage your medications or blood pressure measurement.
EFE
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