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Getting Started with ResearchKit

By : Dhanush Balachandran, Edward Cessna
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Getting Started with ResearchKit

By: Dhanush Balachandran, Edward Cessna

Overview of this book

ResearchKit is an open source software development framework from Apple that lets you easily create mobile applications for clinical research studies. ResearchKit provides you the ability to orchestrate the administration of tasks and recording of the results. ResearchKit provides tasks in order to perform informed consent, active tasks, and surveys. Starting with the basics of the ResearchKit framework, this books walks you through the steps of creating iOS applications that could serve as the basis of a clinical research mobile app. This book will introduce readers to ResearchKit and how to turn your iPhone into into a clinical research tool. The book will start off by installing and building the research framework in line with the researcher's needs; during this, the reader will learn to embed ResearchKit in the application and create a small task. After this, the book will go a little deeper into creating modules for surveys, consents, and so on. The book will also cover the various aspects of privacy and security with regard to participant data, and how to build dashboards for visualizing medical data and results in line with the researcher's requirements: data backends, JSON serialization and deserialization, and so on. Readers will be able to fully utilize ResearchKit for medical research, will be able to get more and more patients to participate in their surveys, and will gain insights from the surveys using the dashboards created.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Oliver Gepp is a senior software engineer at Zühlke Group, Switzerland with a strong focus on mobile apps. He has a diploma in media computer science from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Most of his projects are in the insurance and banking business, where he covers the whole application life cycle such as business analysis, development, and testing. His passion is developing mobile apps for the iOS platform not only in Swift and Objective-C, but also with cross platform technologies such as Xamarin.

Andreas Griesser is leading the business development at Zühlke Group, Switzerland in the area of LabScience, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology. He holds a master's degree in telecommunication, mathematics, and informatics from the Technical University of Graz, Austria and a PhD in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland (ETH). During his career, he was involved in research projects of real-time three-dimensional scanning, general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU), and medical image analysis.

Under his current activities at Zühlke in the healthcare sector, he focuses on topics such as digital transformation and connected devices—not only on a technical level, but also with a business-related perspective.