Apple’s Jeff Williams has just taken the stage at the Apple Watch event to talk about a new venture for the company: medical research. The SVP of Operations explains how working on HealthKit for iPhone led the Cupertino firm to release a new platform to aid in medical research, called ResearchKit.
“For all the amazing breakthroughs medical researchers have made, they still face big challenges,†Williams said. “Sometimes, researchers see patients only once a quarter, making it difficult to get a complete picture of their health.†And that’s where ResearchKit comes in—now researchers can create apps.
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