Apple is launching a holistic health study that aims to determine how Apple products “play a role in advancing and improving physical health, mental health, and overall wellbeing.” Enrollment for the brand new Apple Health Study opens today in Apple’s Research app — version 6.0 is out today — for participants in the United States. Here’s more about Apple’s most ambitious health study to date.
The study is being conducted in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a leading research hospital and a major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. […]
In medical research, discoveries are often limited by the number of participants who can be recruited, the amount of data that can be captured, and the duration of a given study — but Apple devices expand the possibilities. The Apple Health Study builds on learnings from the Apple Women’s Health Study, the Apple Hearing Study, and the Apple Heart and Movement Study, which combined have more than 350,000 participants across the U.S.
This new longitudinal, virtual study aims to understand how data from technology — including Apple and third-party devices — can be used to predict, detect, monitor, and manage changes in participants’ health. Additionally, researchers will explore connections across different areas of health. The study spans a number of health and disease areas, including activity, aging, cardiovascular health, circulatory health, cognition, hearing, menstrual health, mental health, metabolic health, mobility, neurologic health, respiratory health, sleep, and more.
Apple’s Research app launched in 2019 and has allowed participants to voluntarily join medical research studies without doing much more than sharing information. Apple allows participants to leave its studies and stop data sharing at any time.
The best part is that Apple regularly publishes insights from its studies, and the Apple Health Study is its widest net to cast yet.
Read more about the Apple Health Study here, and sign up in the latest version of the Research app on iPhone. Research 6.0 also includes “additional tasks within the Apple Women’s Health Study that explore menopause,” according to Apple.
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