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ResearchKit and CareKit

Empowering medical researchers, doctors, and you..

Doctors around the world are using iPhone to transform the way we think about health. Apps created with ResearchKit are already producing medical insights and discoveries at a pace and scale never seen before. That success has inspired us to widen the scope from medical research to personal care with the introduction of CareKit — a framework for developers to build apps that let you manage your own well-being on a daily basis.

ResearchKit When medical research gets easier, understanding disease is simpler.

For medical researchers, the first step to battling disease is understanding it. ResearchKit is helping researchers achieve that goal. An open source framework for building apps, ResearchKit makes it easier to enroll participants and conduct studies. Since its introduction, the amount of data collected — and the insight gained — has been groundbreaking.

Parkinson’s disease symptoms can fluctuate from day to day. With the mPower app, Melinda Penkava can track her condition on a daily basis and share the information with her care team — from wherever she happens to be.

More participants mean more data. And more meaningful results.

The biggest challenge medical researchers face is recruiting participants. Often just a handful of people are used in a study. But the sheer number of iPhone users around the globe means that apps built on ResearchKit can enroll participants and gather data in bigger numbers than ever. Information can also be collected with far more regularity — daily or even hourly — as people go about their lives. The result is a much larger and more varied study group, more frequent data, and a more accurate representation of the population.

Taking research out of the lab and into the real world.

ResearchKit makes it easy for you to sign up for and participate in a study by using the iPhone that’s already in your pocket. You no longer have to travel to a hospital or facility to complete tasks and fill out questionnaires. Instead, you can perform activities using the advanced sensors in iPhone to generate incredibly precise data wherever you are, providing a source of information that’s more objective than ever before.

We’ve gone as far as we can with traditional research. Now we have technology in our pockets that lets us go even further.

Research has already come a long way — fast.

In a short amount of time, the apps built on ResearchKit have helped medical institutions enroll an unprecedented number of participants in their studies. Which, in turn, is helping researchers gain insights and discover correlations that were simply not possible before.

Creating a clearer picture of Parkinson’s disease.

Since its launch in 2015, the mPower app has enrolled over 10,000 participants, making it the largest Parkinson’s study in history — with 93 percent of participants never having taken part in any kind of research before. The app helps researchers better understand Parkinson’s disease by using the gyroscope and other iPhone features to measure dexterity, balance, gait, and memory. Researchers have gained greater insight into the factors that make symptoms better or worse, such as sleep, exercise, and mood.

University of Rochester, Sage Bionetworks

Discovering a better way to diagnose autism.

Research has shown that early treatment of developmental issues can lead to higher IQs and better social skills. The Autism & Beyond app uses the front-facing HD camera in iPhone, along with innovative facial recognition algorithms, to analyze emotional reactions to videos in children as young as 18 months. And children can be screened without having to see a specialist in person, allowing for earlier diagnosis and treatment. The app successfully enrolled more people in the first month than a previous nine-month onsite study did.

Autism & Beyond

Duke University, University of Cape Town

Finding a way to predict seizures with Apple Watch.

Researchers hope Apple Watch could eventually help predict seizures before they happen. Since its launch, the EpiWatch app has enabled people to accurately track the onset and duration of seizures in real time, creating a correlation between episode history and medication. Participants sensing an impending seizure launch the app by tapping a custom complication on Apple Watch. The accelerometer and heart rate sensors are triggered, and an alert is automatically sent to a designated family member or caregiver.

Johns Hopkins University

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The Concussion Tracker app monitors patients for six weeks after a head injury. By tracking heart rate patterns and recording physical and cognitive function, researchers aim to better understand the long-term health consequences of concussions.

Concussion Tracker

• NYU Langone Medical Center

Using the Mole Mapper app, people can photograph and track their moles over time to see if and how they are changing. By collecting images from tens of thousands of participants, researchers hope to create an algorithm that can screen for melanomas in their earliest stages.

Mole Mapper

Oregon Health & Science University

Postpartum Depression

The PPD ACT app will help researchers understand whether there is a genetic predisposition for postpartum depression. It’s the first app to use iPhone to enable consent for a DNA sample collection, making the process much easier than before. After opting in, participants are sent a mail-in kit that’s simple to use and send back.

University of North Carolina, National Institute of Mental Health

Sleep Health

Researchers are using the SleepHealth app to identify connections between sleep habits and conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity, COPD, and depression. The SleepHealth app tests daytime alertness and measures the data against self-reported sleep patterns and sleep quality.

SleepHealth

University of California San Diego, American Sleep Apnea Association

More great apps have been built with ResearchKit.

Carekit the more you know about your health, the better you can look after it..

With the right tools, you can play an active role in managing your own health. That’s why we created CareKit — an open source software framework enabling developers to build apps that help you manage your medical conditions. Rather than relying solely on doctor visits, you’ll be able to regularly track your symptoms and medications, and even share the information with your care team for a bigger — and better — picture of your health.

The EpiWatch app lets you send a notification to a loved one when a seizure is coming on. For Shaina Mims, it’s a feature that offers a sense of security. “It feels like I have power over this. It could save a life.”

Great apps are already being developed using CareKit.

Developers are taking advantage of the CareKit framework to create personal care apps. So you can use apps that incorporate CareKit modules such as Care Card and Insight Dashboard. You can also connect directly with your care team. Here are a few of those apps.

Heart attack recovery at your fingertips.

From the moment you enter the hospital, through discharge and recovery, this post-heart attack app aids in a successful recuperation and heart-healthy life. Using the Care Card module of CareKit, the app lets you easily track things like medications and physical activity. The MyVitals tab helps you stay in tune with indicators for recovery like heart rate, blood pressure and mood. Care teams can review the data entered and reach out if you need to see your doctor.

Corrie Health app

Johns Hopkins

Navigate your child’s health care.

Having a child with complex medical issues is challenging. This pediatric care management app gives you a window into your child’s daily symptoms, for better insight and more personalized ongoing care. Using the Insight Dashboard module of CareKit, the app helps you better understand patterns and relationships of symptoms, so you can monitor progress and follow your child’s care over time.

Caremap app

Duke and Boston Children's Hospital

An easier way to manage diabetes.

Living with diabetes means constantly managing your blood sugar. The One Drop app incorporates CareKit modules that let you monitor how you’re feeling. You’ll be able to track your pain, hunger, and dizziness against measurements such as your glucose levels. And all this information can easily be shared with loved ones and caregivers directly from the app.

Diabetes care app

We’re trying to bring care to patients, wherever they are, right on their phones.

Privacy Share your data, keep your privacy.

We know how much you value the privacy of your information, and both ResearchKit and CareKit have been designed with that in mind. You choose which research studies you want to join, you control what information you provide to which apps, and you can always see the data you’re sharing.

Partners We’re working with an accomplished medical community.

To develop ResearchKit and CareKit, we consulted leading hospitals, medical institutions, and foundations around the world. Their experiences and insights have helped us create software frameworks tailored both to the needs of individuals and to the challenges faced by modern medical researchers.

• American Heart Association
• Boston Children’s Hospital
• Dana Farber Cancer Institute
• Duke Medicine
• Emory Healthcare
• Harvard Medical School
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Johns Hopkins Medicine
• Keck Medicine of USC
• Keio University Hospital
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Sage Bionetworks
• Stanford Medicine
• Universitats Freiburg Klinikum
• University of Cape Town
• University of Hong Kong
• University of Nebraska Medical Center
• University of Oxford
• University of Rochester Medical Center
• Yale School of Medicine

Open source. So the world can make the most of it.

We’ve made ResearchKit and CareKit open source because we want everyone to be able to contribute to medical research and benefit from improved personal care. Open source frameworks are the best way to encourage the medical community and developers to collaborate and share their apps and methods. And we can’t wait to see what they do.

ResearchKit

ResearchKit is available to developers worldwide. Learn more at researchkit.org .

If you’re a researcher interested in learning more, please contact us .

CareKit is available to developers worldwide. Learn more at carekit.org .

If you’d like to learn more, please contact us .

Important discoveries are at your fingertips.

In 2015, ResearchKit was released to help researchers tackle some of the most common challenges facing medical research. Since then, researchers have been able to launch groundbreaking new studies through apps that reach participants at scale and produce breakthrough insights.

What you can do with ResearchKit.

Informed consent gather informed consent from your participants quickly..

Study participants can provide signatures directly on their device.

Survey Function Easily build questionnaires for your users.

Leave pen and paper behind and create surveys that are easy to complete from any iOS device.

Active Tasks Use active tasks to capture sensor information.

ResearchKit uses Apple device sensors to measure a variety of tasks. Select any of the below to view a sample.

• motor skills
• hand dexterity

“With the ResearchKit platform, we have been able to conduct the largest genetic study of postpartum depression (PPD) with a global population of participants.” Quote by Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH UNC at Chapel Hill, Mom Genes Fight PPD App

Research apps are helping produce medical discoveries at a scale and pace never seen before.

An app from the FDA hopes to improve clinical research.

Apple’s Research app takes full advantage of ResearchKit.

Check out some apps built for research..

Apple Researc‪h‬

Delivering studies at scale.

A research study of peripheral artery disease.

Stanford University

MyHeart Counts

Improves our understanding of heart health.

Exploring how genetic factors influence disease.

The Scripps Research Institute

A research study for people with epilepsy.

Johns Hopkins Digital

Corrie Health

An app designed to help patients recover from a heart attack.

Seeks to understand Multiple Sclerosis from daily experiences.

Duke Health

WebMD Pregnancy

Track a baby’s growth and development, week by week.

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Review any of the below articles and take the first step toward building your app.

Learn about the Investigator Support Program.

Check out Apple’s new Research app built with ResearchKit.

Read some best practices for using the frameworks.

Tell us about your project.

The Research and Care community can be a resource for you to learn and share.

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See the latest code-along series on how to build a research and care app

Setup Onboarding

Schedule Tasks

Visualize Progress

FDA MyStudies

An app to further the advancement of clinical research.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expanding the reach of clinical research with a new app called MyStudies. The app can be customized and rebranded for any study using open source code.

The MyStudies app allows secure data to be collected directly from patients and has the potential to make the drug development process more efficient and focused on patients.

After successful outcomes from a pilot study conducted in partnership with Kaiser Permanente, the FDA has released the open source code and technical documents that allow researchers and developers to customize and use MyStudies. The code was recently updated in conjunction with rebranding and configuration for use in the LimitJIA clinical trial supported by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute and a registry supported by the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation.

The MyStudies app incorporates key features and functionality to enable successful study app development and execution. It allows for customized configuration to support its use across various conditions and health outcomes. If necessary for your study, the app and its secure data storage can be operated in a manner consistent with audits and compliance with 21 CFR Part 11 and the Federal Information Security Management Act.

Similar to the ResearchKit framework, the MyStudies project is open source, which means developers can continue to enhance the current feature set through contributions to the project on GitHub.

Modules used:

Learn more about FDA MyStudies

Learn more about LimitJIA study

Learn more about Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation MyStudies app project

In November, Apple released its new Research app built to revolutionize how health research is conducted. Three new studies, available on the Research app, will explore new areas of medical research. The app and associated studies leverage the ResearchKit framework to the fullest by taking advantage of features from ResearchKit’s core modules: Consent, Surveys, and Active Tasks.

Since its launch in 2015, ResearchKit development has laid the foundation for studies to be conducted on a mobile platform that allows people to participate in research studies from the comfort of their own home. ResearchKit has established the building blocks of mobile studies through features that enable the ability to quickly capture informed consent from participants, easily generate questionnaires, and deliver active tasks to engage participants in the research study. All of these modules have contributed to the launch of numerous studies around the globe that were not previously possible.

The continued development and growth of the ResearchKit framework from both Apple’s engineering teams and the amazing ResearchKit community contributions are now being utilized through Apple Research app, a testament to the devotion and commitment to health research at Apple. User experience and engagement has always been a top priority at Apple, and ResearchKit will continue to support and elevate the experience for participants based on feedback from our community and these new studies.

View the Apple Research app on the App Store

Learn more about Apple Research app

ResearchKit

Introducing researchkit.

ResearchKit is an open source framework introduced by Apple that allows researchers and developers to create powerful apps for medical research. Easily create visual consent flows, real-time dynamic active tasks, and surveys using a variety of customizable modules that you can build upon and share with the community. And since ResearchKit works seamlessly with HealthKit, researchers can access even more relevant data for their studies — like daily step counts, calorie use, and heart rate.

The core ResearchKit framework offers core modules that include a survey engine, visual consent flow, and active tasks.

The core framework comes with Swift and Objective-C examples, and full conceptual and API documentation. It has also been localized to many languages.

• Get it on GitHub
• Documentation
• API Reference
• Design Guidelines for Research Apps
• ResearchKit Forum
• Sample Code
• Watch the Video

Using ResearchKit

A task in ResearchKit contains a set of steps to present to a user. Everything, whether the visual consent flow, surveys, or active tasks, is represented as a task that can be presented with a task view controller.

• Build surveys for modal presentation on an iOS device.
• Use customizable visual consent templates to explain the details of your study and obtain a signature from the participant. Be sure to get your visual consent flow approved by your institutional review board (IRB) or ethics committee.
• Use active tasks to invite users to perform activities under semi-controlled conditions, using iPhone sensors to collect data.

Back End Services

The ResearchKit framework does not include a data management solution. The framework can be used with a data management solution of your choice. When choosing a backend service for your research application, consider the provider’s data privacy and security practices. For more information, see the ResearchKit framework best practices .

Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) . The debugging console in Xcode includes an interactive version of the Swift language built right in. Use Swift syntax to evaluate and interact with your running app, or write new code to see how it works in a script-like environment. Available from within the Xcode console, or in Terminal.

ResearchKit Tutorials

These tutorials, along with the ResearchKit documentation, will help you get up and running fast. Please note that these tutorials are authored by members of the ResearchKit community and Apple does not endorse or make any representations as to the accuracy of the content.

• How to set up a ResearchKit project
• Advanced ResearchKit Project Setup
• Learning ResearchKit
• Accessing Heart Rate Data for Your ResearchKit Study
• How to create a new ResearchKit Active Task

ResearchKit SampleCode

The ResearchKit framework comes with two sample apps located in the samples folder: ORKSample and ORKCatalog.

The ORKSample app demonstrates how to use the main features of ResearchKit — informed consent, surveys, active tasks, account creation, and passcode pin entry — and also shows how to architect a research app to ensure a great user experience. You can quickly prototype research ideas by modifying the sample app.

ORKSample has:

• Placeholder pages for providing a preview of the study
• A dashboard page for displaying results to participants
• A profile page that shows key user data as well as providing an easy-to-access link for withdrawing from a study
• An activities page that provides a list of all the study tasks

ORKCatalog shows how to:

• Construct a task
• Present a task view controller
• Handle the delegate callbacks from the task view controller
• Access the structure of the results collected by the task

ResearchKit and the ResearchKit logo are trademarks of Apple Inc.

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Apple, the Apple logo and other Apple trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos used in connection with the ResearchKit project are trademarks or registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the US and/or other countries. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos used in connection with the ResearchKit project may be the trademarks of their respective owners. You are granted no right or license in any of the aforesaid trademarks, and further agree that you shall not remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary notices (including trademark and copyright notices) that may be affixed to or contained within the Service. You may use the ResearchKit mark in order to indicate that your product uses or is compatible with the ResearchKit software (for example, “for use with,” “for,” or “compatible with" ResearchKit) provided that:

• The product does in fact use ResearchKit software developed by the ResearchKit.org open source project;
• The ResearchKit mark stands apart from your brand or trademark (e.g., as in “ResearchKit for Chromium")
• You do not seek to register a trademark containing ResearchKit or the ResearchKit logo; and
• You do not state or imply in any way that Apple endorses, sponsors or guarantees your product, or was involved in or associated with its development.

For further information about proper referential uses of the mark ResearchKit and the ResearchKit logo, please review the “Guidelines for Using Apple Trademarks and Copyrights” .

Advancing Global Health and Sustainability 

Kits4Life is a cross-sector initiative, developed by the life sciences community, to repurpose clinical trial supplies, lab kits, and equipment to close the healthcare gap worldwide.

TOGETHER WE CAN CHANGE A LIFE

Our Inspiration

In September 2016, a yellow fever outbreak devastated the Congo, claiming 82 lives out of 1,400 reported cases, primarily children.

Despite receiving over a million vaccine doses, a severe shortage of syringes hindered vaccination efforts, requiring an additional 6 million syringes. By December, the epidemic claimed 350 more lives.

Our Response

Life sciences leaders took the lead in shaping, developing and implementing Kits4Life.

Today they are leading the way, united by a vision: recovered surplus medical supplies can now offer life-saving assistance to those in need around the globe.

Kits4Life receives donations from two sources.​

Research sponsors join Kits4Life and, after an onboarding and pilot process, approve the donation of their kits and ancillary supplies from their trial sites to an MSA-Accredited Medical Surplus Recovery Organization.

Trial sites and CROs can also join Kits4Life to donate kits, supplies, and equipment they own or that their sponsors approve for donation.

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Greg Folz, Administrative Director of the Research Institute of Deaconess Clinic, was deeply affected by this crisis. As both a grandfather and a life sciences professional, he felt compelled to act.

Inspired by concerns from clinical research staff about unused lab supplies' environmental impact, Greg proposed the Kits4Life initiative. This innovative platform allows clinical trial sites to donate surplus lab kits and supplies for humanitarian aid.

The concept won the SCRS Site Tank challenge , demonstrating the support of the life science community.  Greg next contacted MSA to provide the framework and tools to create and manage the new program.

Demonstrating that one person's inspired vision can impact millions of lives.

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