How Apple wants to empower iPhone users to track medical conditions with CareKit

CUPERTINO, California — When Apple launched ResearchKit over a year ago, the company believed letting developers create app tools for medical studies would be the end of its role. In theory, ResearchKit would let researchers collect data from study participants from nearly anywhere in the world, and propel the medical field forward by learning as much as it could about conditions from epilepsy to asthma.

But Apple later followed up with certain studies and discovered something it didn't expect. Studies conducted among patients with a disease alongside a control group revealed — in some cases — people who didn't think they had the condition, such as Parkinson's Disease, actually did, or that patient medications weren't working at all. Those findings, among others, were shown in the data. Read more...