Apple's revolutionary medical tool ResearchKit professionality is questioned

In 2015, Apple released the breakthrough digital medical platform, ResearchKit, which is to reform the market for clinical trials. Now it faces the challenges of many mobile medical companies. Many people also think that ResearchKit has “lost the original should Some uses."

When it was first released, ResearchKit was hailed as "a revolutionary medical tool." But just as the first research done with the ResearchKit platform began to produce results, competitors and digital medical analysts jumped out and questioned its utility.

ResearchKit emerged to enable medical research to unite with consumers in the digital health arena to collect useful medical information from health data on smartphones, laptops or Apple Watch. However, some people believe that clinical research requires more and more specialized data, and the accuracy of the data needs to be studied.

Apple ResearchKit (image from iSmartLiving.net)

“ResearchKit is very good for usability research and feasibility studies,” said Ryan Rossier, vice chairman of electronic health consulting firm Medullan. “A closer look at ResearchKit reveals that it is just a data library, not a medical platform. The lack of data reliability and professionalism has caused Apple to just taste it, but the medical community needs something deeper. If Apple wants to get involved in medical care, it must make ResearchKit go further."

In the market where ResearchKit is located, companies such as ePatientFinder, ProofPilot, KlickHealth and Medidata are flocking. They all claim to be a new wave of mobile medical clinical trial platforms that provide healthcare providers with medical-grade consumer data.

According to Tom Dorsett, CEO of ePatientFinder, Apple ResearchKit provides only "very simple observation tools" and "very basic data." He said that Apple's clinical research platform is far from professional medicine and cannot meet the most pressing needs of the medical and pharmaceutical industries. The clinical experimental platform of ePatientFinder is really to accurately match patients and clinical trials, and to conduct an in-depth observation of first-hand electronic medical data, instead of rushing through a large number of consumer data to find participants. Using medical-grade data can make the results more reliable, and it also means working with healthcare providers such as hospitals.

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