How Apple and Google Are Going to Help Cure Humanity’s Diseases

Huffington Post - Quotes Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, on Apple’s new open-platform medical research tool ResearchKit. ReserchKit allows anyone with an iPhone to participate in a medical study, and in turn any approved researcher can collect data on potentially millions of people. Schwartz comments on the issues of self-reporting and the fact that participation is on an opt-in basis, and doesn’t allow the vetting of participants beforehand. Read more...