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"Can iPhones Help Fight Drug Addiction? The NIH Thinks So"

  • Fortune Magazine
  • (November 19, 2015)

The sheer number of iPhone users means that studies that use Apple’s  ResearchKit can be significantly more robust than studies that recruit volunteers. For example, a team from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai released an app for people with asthma in March. 50,000 people downloaded it and 2,000 of those contributed data on a regular basis. Of those 2,000 people, 87% of them wouldn’t be able to travel to Mount Sinai for a traditional study, so ResearchKit significantly expanded the number of patients researchers could monitor. Learn more.