The Apple CEO, Tim Cook, delivers comments before the start of an Apple event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, on September 9, 2024.
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Apple He is deepening his investment in medical care research through the launch of a new year project called Apple Health Study, the company announced Wednesday.
The study will analyze how data of devices such as iPhones, Airpods and Apple Watches can monitor, manage and predict changes in user health. It will also explore the connections between different health components, such as the way in which mental health affects heart rate.
Apple's health study is the first important health research project that the company has announced since it presented the health study of Apple women, the Hearing Hearing study and the Apple Heart and Movement movement study in 2019. These projects are ongoing, and have inspired many health characteristics that Apple has introduced in recent years.
Apple launched a hearing test in autumn, for example, which was developed using Apple audition studio ideas, the company said.
The new study will probably influence the future development of products. Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, said previously that he believes that health characteristics will be the “most important contribution of the company to humanity.”
“We are delighted to present Apple's health study, which will only accelerate our understanding of health and technology throughout the human body, both physically and mentally,” said Dr. Sumbul Desai, Apple Health Vice President of Health .
Apple's health study will be available through the company's research application, and participation is voluntary. Users will select each type of data that are willing to share with researchers, and can stop sharing or completely discontinuing their participation at any time.
Apple does not have access to the identifiable information of the participants, the company said.
Brigham and Women's Hospital, a teaching affiliate at Harvard's Faculty of Medicine and a research hospital, is collaborating with Apple in the study. The project will last at least five years and can expand beyond that.
“We just started scratching the surface of how technology can improve our understanding of human health,” said Dr. Calum Macrae, the main researcher of the study at the Brigham and Women's Hospital hospital.
