Apple Watches offered by Apple in grant program to qualifying ResearchKit and CareKit projects

The Apple Watch continues to leap further in the lead with their watch.

GREAT. Would love for AppleWatch to be mandated in health companies.

Yeh for us!   This will help to open MUCH needed medical HealthCare research.

Historically healthcare research has been controlled and dominated by industry:  the Medical, Pharmaceutical and Food (meat, dairy, fast food, processed foods, etc.) industries.   And, they have used research to support their own industry ("You need your protein", "Milk builds strong bones", and the now popular Atkins Diet clones) all the while pushing medicalized solutions to unhealthy lifestyles.  

The food industry gets rich poisoning us while the medical industry gets rich treating the diseases the food industry caused!   

To get away with that, they base their marketing on reductionist research techniques to measure individual parameters (like glucose or cholesterol) using highly designed (but very limited) Randomize Controlled Trials ("RCTs") -- which are essentially laboratory science.   And, they have convinced the medial community that nothing but an RCT is a valid study.

Slick!   They use their money and power to distort science to promote their own profit and well being at the expense of ours.

But, things like iPhones, Apple Watches, Research Kit and CareKit open up to valid, objective observational and epidemiological studies that observe the effects of different parameters applied to large numbers of real people doing real things over long stretches of time -- because they can generate and accumulate objective data in real time:   For example:  They can record food intake meal by meal or exercise duration and intensity as it happens and accumulate all that at virtually no cost in a central database for later analysis.

This was never before possible.

These mobile products combined with cloud based computing can revolutionize health care research and shake the very foundations that our DiseaseManagement system relies on to take in $3.5 Trillion a year.

And, these grants from Apple will further that process by opening up real research using real people doing real things to smaller, less well funded researchers.

Thank You Apple!

GeorgeBMac said:

Yeh for us!   This will help to open MUCH needed medical HealthCare research.

Historically healthcare research has been controlled and dominated by industry:  the Medical, Pharmaceutical and Food (meat, dairy, fast food, processed foods, etc.) industries.   And, they have used research to support their own industry ("You need your protein", "Milk builds strong bones", and the now popular Atkins Diet clones) all the while pushing medicalized solutions to unhealthy lifestyles.  

The food industry gets rich poisoning us while the medical industry gets rich treating the diseases the food industry caused!   

To get away with that, they base their marketing on reductionist research techniques to measure individual parameters (like glucose or cholesterol) using highly designed (but very limited) Randomize Controlled Trials ("RCTs") -- which are essentially laboratory science.   And, they have convinced the medial community that nothing but an RCT is a valid study.

Slick!   They use their money and power to distort science to promote their own profit and well being at the expense of ours.

But, things like iPhones, Apple Watches, Research Kit and CareKit open up to valid, objective observational and epidemiological studies that observe the effects of different parameters applied to large numbers of real people doing real things over long stretches of time -- because they can generate and accumulate objective data in real time:   For example:  They can record food intake meal by meal or exercise duration and intensity as it happens and accumulate all that at virtually no cost in a central database for later analysis.

This was never before possible.

These mobile products combined with cloud based computing can revolutionize health care research and shake the very foundations that our DiseaseManagement system relies on to take in $3.5 Trillion a year.

And, these grants from Apple will further that process by opening up real research using real people doing real things to smaller, less well funded researchers.

Thank You Apple!

While there’s clearly a lot we do not agree on, I believe your observations of the medical, pharmaceutical and food industries are spot on.  Apple may be just the interlocutor we need to slowly nudge bias out of research studies.  But its hard when so much money is at stake and the major players have no incentive to change.  It’s going to be interesting to watch (was that a pun...).

JWSC said:

GeorgeBMac said:

Yeh for us!   This will help to open MUCH needed medical HealthCare research.

Historically healthcare research has been controlled and dominated by industry:  the Medical, Pharmaceutical and Food (meat, dairy, fast food, processed foods, etc.) industries.   And, they have used research to support their own industry ("You need your protein", "Milk builds strong bones", and the now popular Atkins Diet clones) all the while pushing medicalized solutions to unhealthy lifestyles.  

The food industry gets rich poisoning us while the medical industry gets rich treating the diseases the food industry caused!   

To get away with that, they base their marketing on reductionist research techniques to measure individual parameters (like glucose or cholesterol) using highly designed (but very limited) Randomize Controlled Trials ("RCTs") -- which are essentially laboratory science.   And, they have convinced the medial community that nothing but an RCT is a valid study.

Slick!   They use their money and power to distort science to promote their own profit and well being at the expense of ours.

But, things like iPhones, Apple Watches, Research Kit and CareKit open up to valid, objective observational and epidemiological studies that observe the effects of different parameters applied to large numbers of real people doing real things over long stretches of time -- because they can generate and accumulate objective data in real time:   For example:  They can record food intake meal by meal or exercise duration and intensity as it happens and accumulate all that at virtually no cost in a central database for later analysis.

This was never before possible.

These mobile products combined with cloud based computing can revolutionize health care research and shake the very foundations that our DiseaseManagement system relies on to take in $3.5 Trillion a year.

And, these grants from Apple will further that process by opening up real research using real people doing real things to smaller, less well funded researchers.

Thank You Apple!

While there’s clearly a lot we do not agree on, I believe your observations of the medical, pharmaceutical and food industries are spot on.  Apple may be just the interlocutor we need to slowly nudge bias out of research studies.  But its hard when so much money is at stake and the major players have no incentive to change.  It’s going to be interesting to watch (was that a pun...).

<Blush!>

I feel like Dr McCoy when Mr Spock finally admitted that he was right about something!

But,

"A study showed" that the single biggest determinant of the outcome of a study was who funded the study.

That suggests that "we" could save a lot of money by skipping the expensive study and just asking the drug company or the food company what it was they wanted us to do and believe.