CareKit: Apple goes further and further on the mobile medical road

In the early morning of March 22, Beijing time, Apple held a spring new product launch at the Cupertino headquarters in California. In addition to a series of hardware devices, Apple also brought CareKit, a brand new health management suite.

CareKit: Apple goes further and further on the mobile medical road

Following the appearance of Tim Cook and Lisa Jackson, Apple COO Jeff Williams also took the stage to explain CareKit. According to Jeff Williams, CareKit is a new software architecture that allows doctors and researchers to quickly provide effective medical solutions to patients such as Parkinson's disease, and patients themselves can get their own health.

Two examples of CareKit

Specifically, patients can detect their medication status and improvement of the condition on the iPhone, and this data is more timely available to the medical provider, including the patient's doctor, researcher, etc., then the medical institution can Through this data, new medical methods or doses are developed for patients. In other words, CareKit plays a more active role in helping doctors and patients understand their health.

CareKit: Apple goes further and further on the mobile medical road

In addition, Jeff Williams gave another example. Jeff Williams believes that the most important factor affecting a surgical outcome is the postoperative recovery process, and the medical card is critical to the patient because there is important information such as a doctor's advice. However, the actual situation is that the paper is Sometimes the effect can be very limited. There is a “Care Card” function in CareKit. Patients can record the daily treatment and physical condition at any time. Most importantly, this data can be shared and shared with the patient's doctor. Then the doctor can recover from the above records. The measures make different adjustments and recommendations.

The essence of CareKit

CareKit is an open source suite that gives developers of sports and health apps a lot of room to work. In addition to the Carekit app itself, developers can integrate the CareKit module into their applications to make patients post-operative, A wealth of information on diabetes, mental health and health status is observed and helps healthcare providers provide more effective medical methods and advice.

CareKit: Apple goes further and further on the mobile medical road

Obviously, CareKit can't directly provide treatment for patients. The greatest value of it is that it can open a fast information exchange channel between patients and doctors, and exchange information in real time, which greatly reduces the time required in the same situation. This is especially important in the treatment of the disease.

How do medical institutions view CareKit

For many doctors and experts, although the CareKit at Apple's press conference is not the focus, this is their biggest concern. Many experts have already expressed their views on CareKit on social platforms.

Neurologists from the University Hospital of Rochester believe that for clinical research, applications under the mobile Internet are fast, convenient, and low-cost. CareKit can help researchers narrow the gap between research results. A brand new opportunity for hospital research.

The Houston Medical Center in Texas said they are researching apps that provide medical guidance to patients, so that there is better communication between the 800 patients and the medical team, and CareKit will undoubtedly provide a lot of help.

In addition, Glow, Lnc. It also said that they will integrate the CareKit module into their own app to guide women to maintain their physical and mental health during pregnancy.

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