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mHealth advances clinical research, bit by bit

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Monitoring the symptoms of a large cohort of asthma patients is made possible by a smartphone app created using Apple ResearchKit.

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Figure 1: Comparison of mHealth and traditional clinical research by study stages.

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  1. Joseph C. Kvedar is in the Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and Partners Connected Health, Partners Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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  2. Alexander L. Fogel is at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.

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J.C.K. is an advisor to Claritas Mindsciences, Mavericks Capital, PureTech, Qualcomm Life and MD Revolution. A.L.F. has no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Kvedar, J., Fogel, A. mHealth advances clinical research, bit by bit. Nat Biotechnol 35, 337–339 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3851

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