Since the launch of the Apple Watch, Apple has shown that it has a special interest in making its smartwatch a device that helps us on a daily basis to improve both our physical activity and to have our pulsations, heart rate controlled at all times, etc. But it is not only directing health to the Apple Watch, but it is also focusing on the ResearchKit, with which Apple is creating a system that allows medical organizations to have the health of patients controlled at all times and for this it has signed Dr. Stephen Friend, one of the co-founders of Sage Bionetworks, a company specialized in biomedical research through the use of computer models to predict the outcome and results of medical treatments.
According to the statement that he has posted on his own website:
Dr. Friend has agreed to collaborate with the Apple company where he will work on health-related projects.
The company was one of the first companies to collaborate with Research Kit, a project that Apple launched in March 2015 to accelerate medical advances in the search for treatments, allowing medical professionals to create applications for iOS and watchOS that work in conjunction with the sensors of these devices to obtain symptoms of disease or illness itself. Previously, Dr. Friend worked leading an oncology scientific research team at Merck & Co in addition to having worked at Harvard Medical School.
Most of the progress that Sage has made over the years is linked to Dr. Friend hence from now on will collaborate with the company without leaving aside his work and studies in the company he founded. Let's see if one day we will be able to enjoy all the software that the Cupertino-based company is creating for the world of health, since it would allow in a much more efficient way to diagnose possible diseases without the need for users to have to go to medical centers, except in the case of life-threatening emergencies.
