article_snippet.sent: Apple recently announced an initiative called ResearchKit that plans to gather health data from iPhone users.
article_snippet.sent: Apple will use, on a voluntary basis, data from medical tracking apps to help research asthma, breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.
article_snippet.sent: Apple's senior vice president of Operations Jeff Williams said: 'ResearchKit is made for medical researchers, ResearchKit lets medical researchers easily create apps.'