Apple:

Doctors around the world are using iPhone to transform the way we think about health. Apps created with ResearchKit are already producing medical insights and discoveries at a pace and scale never seen before. That success has inspired us to widen the scope from medical research to personal care with the introduction of CareKit — a framework for developers to build apps that let you manage your own well-being on a daily basis.

At today’s Apple Event, Apple spent a good period of time talking about ResearchKit and CareKit. I’ve got a couple of doctor friends who are research scientists and they’ve been really excited about ResearchKit and I’m sure will be just as excited about what they can do with CareKit. Research is all about data and these tools from Apple allow researchers to gather more data than they’ve even been able to in the past.