Elsevier Acquires Laboratory Data Management Tool Hivebench

Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Integration with Elsevier’s Research Data Management portfolio helps researchers prepare, conduct and analyze experiments, methods, and protocols in one place, saving them valuable time. Read on...

Introduction to CareKit

Thursday, 12 May 2016

CareKit is a software framework created by Apple, for creating apps that help people better understand and manage their health. It provides customizable modules to record and display health-related data. This article gives a technical presentation of CareKit, and introduces the various modules available to build your app. Read on...

List of all CareKit apps

Friday, 29 April 2016

On March 21, 2016, Apple introduced CareKit, “a new software framework designed to help developers enable people to actively manage their own medical conditions”. The present document aims at listing all the iOS applications that have been built with CareKit, and released on the App Store. Read on...

How to Manage Participant Consent with ResearchKit

Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Obtaining the participants’ consent is a very important process for medical study apps. It is one of the first actions performed by the participant, and it enables legal compliance for all the data managed by the app. This article will describe the different ResearchKit classes available to configure, present, and analyse the consent of the participant. Read on...

Advanced survey navigation with ResearchKit

Monday, 14 March 2016

Designing surveys with ResearchKit can be as simple or as complex as you need it to be. This article focuses on navigation. In particular, how to build non-linear surveys with ResearchKit, with custom and dynamic navigation rules. Read on...

How to create surveys with ResearchKit

Thursday, 3 March 2016

ResearchKit provides rich, yet easy-to-use, surveys for medical study apps. It offers templates for basic questions and specialized answers, with different types of values (text, number, dates, even images), and constraints (free-form, multiple choice, ranges). This article will help you create a simple ResearchKit survey, then introduce how it can be customized to fit specific needs. Read on...

How to build an activity dashboard with ResearchKit

Friday, 26 February 2016

Participants’ commitment is crucial for medical studies, and one of the best ways to keep people interested in a ResearchKit app is to offer a great dashboard. Read on...

Advanced ResearchKit project setup

Friday, 12 February 2016

In our article “How to setup a ResearchKit project”, we have detailed the process of creating and configuring an Xcode project to build a ResearchKit app. Once you get comfortable with this workflow, it becomes interesting to combine it with more advanced techniques, to improve its efficiency and reliability. Read on...

How to setup a ResearchKit project

Wednesday, 10 February 2016

ResearchKit is a great framework to help you build an engaging mobile experience, but it’s also fairly complex, especially if you are new to iOS development. This step-by-step guide will help you setup your first ResearchKit project. Read on...

List of all ResearchKit apps

Monday, 1 February 2016

When Apple introduced ResearchKit on March 9, 2015, five apps were released in partnership with a handful of labs and universities. Since then, additional apps have been listed by Apple on apple.com/researchkit/, but the official page doesn’t include all the apps that have been released since. Read on...