Apple SVP of Operations, Jeff Williams, today announced “ResearchKit”, a new software framework in the vein of HomeKit and HealthKit that will turn an iPhone into “powerful diagnostic tools for medical research.”
Williams mentioned multiple conditions that ResearchKit will be aimed at, including: Parkinson’s, Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Asthma and Breast cancer. Apple also promised it “will not see your data” when reiterating on Privacy of the new ResearchKit app.
ResearchKit will be released next month, and those first five apps mentioned by Williams at the conference are going to be available today.
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