CareKit - Apple's neglected new service will gradually improve medical data

There is almost no iPhone SE with a change in appearance, an iPad Pro with a lens, and a watch-based Apple Watch. I believe that everyone has been washed by these similar views after the Apple conference.

In fact, the conference on the early morning of the 22nd was an underrated conference, because in addition to hardware, there is something worth discussing.

This is HealthKit, a neglected force of change.

Personal medical file in your pocket - CareKit

Apple added a new partner, CareKit, to the HealthKit family on the 22nd. What is CareKit doing?

Many patients with high blood pressure or other chronic diseases need regular symptom monitoring to see if their treatment plan is effective, as a basis for further treatment. The role of CareKit is to build a development platform in the form of an open source framework, transferring traditional health information tracking behaviors and corresponding materials rooted in a single medical device from a physical paper and pen to your smartphone. You can also directly Use your smartphone or small wearable device to complete daily tests and share information with family and doctors.

Take Parkinson's disease as an example. A common symptom of Parkinson's disease is physical activity disorder. Through some simple physical tests, doctors and patients themselves can know if the condition has improved after receiving treatment. These physical tests can be done with smartphone touch screens and specific detection apps and algorithms, and the network eliminates barriers to data synchronization between doctors and patients.

The Parkinson application mPower, jointly developed by Sage Bionetworks, the University of Rochester, the Chinese Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital and the Michael J. Fox Parkinson Research Foundation, is the first application to interface with CareKit.

So, with the app developed based on CareKit, the iPhone becomes the patient's mobile medical file. Of course, CareKit is not a myth. As for its problems, we will talk about it later. Now let's take a look at Apple's three "Kit" systems.