"How the iPhone Is Helping Doctors Battle Diseases"
Eric Schadt, PhD, of The Mount Sinai Hospital discusses the Apple ResearchKit with Bloomberg's Cory Johnson on "Bloomberg West." “I think the advances we are seeing in these mobile health apps, with sophisticated devices like the iPhone, is that you can do a lot more than just track steps and your activity rate. We can connect devices,” says Schadt. He continues, “For example, our asthma study we’ll be able to have Bluetooth enabled inhalers. We’ll know when somebody’s inhaling, how much they’re inhaling throughout the day.” Learn more.
