After a couple of years already with the application "Salud" In our devices, Apple continues to make efforts to bring consumer technology to health, and our iPhone can collect a lot of information from our day to day, information that can help study diseases such as Parkinson's or Epilepsy.
They presented ResearchKit to help researchers and organizations study these diseases in large volumes using devices that ordinary people already have, and released the code so that it could be used by anyone for free. Now Apple gives ResearchKit a companion, but intended for the end people, and its name is CareKit.
CareKit is a framework that allows the development of applications closely linked to the Health application, the idea of CareKit is study the effect of treatments on our health and check if these are effective or not.
To give you an example, after surgery with an application based on CareKit, it could be studied whether rehabilitation exercises really improve our recovery, or with some diseases we could register the medication and see if it has a positive effect or not on the problem. way we get to get a more accurate view of our health and the professionals can better adjust the rehabilitation exercises or the doses of some medicine, obtaining at all times (and always with the consent of the user) vital information that helps to understand if these treatments are being effective or not.
Apple COO Jeff Williams has emphasized the Apple's efforts to improve the worldNot only are they outstanding in their environmental commitment, but they have also made a notable contribution to the improvement of health studies thanks to their carefully designed software and provided free of charge.
CareKit will be released at the end of AprilTherefore, we will still have to wait a month to see the first applications developed with this framework.