"Mobile Phone Health Apps Deliver Data Bounty"
Smartphone apps developed by academics, pharmaceutical companies and technology giants are making possible large studies that collect real-time data on people’s location, environment and health. “In the past, stuff like this was just logistically impossible to do,” says Yvonne Chan, MD, director of digital health at the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, about the asthma health app developed at Mount Sinai using Apple’s ResearchKit. “It opens up a brand-new area of research.” On March 21, Apple announced that ResearchKit apps can now import a user’s genetic data from the consumer testing service 23andMe. Dr. Chan’s asthma app will be among the first to be able to easily incorporate users’ 23andMe data, if participants allow it. Learn more.
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