Yale Signs on to Apple’s ResearchKit for Heart Disease Study

Fierce Medical Devices - Quotes Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical practice, about Apple's ResearchKit platform, and expresses skepticism towards using the platform for research, as it relies on patient-reported information rather than facts to fuel clinical trials. "Just collecting lots of information about people—who may or may not have a particular disease, and may or may not represent the typical patient—could just add noise and distraction," says Schwartz. "Bias times a million is still bias."