AOS-P4: Exploring the vast and growing Apple Open Source - Part 4
In this fourth part from the series of articles on the "Manzana Open Source » We will continue to explore the vast and growing catalog of open apps developed by the Technological Giant de «Manzana".
In order to continue expanding our knowledge of the open applications released by each of the Technological Giants of the group known as GAFAM. What, as many already know, is made up of the following North American companies: "Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft".
GAFAM Open Source: Technological Giants in favor of Open Source
For those interested in exploring our initial publication related to the topic, you can click on the following link, after finishing reading this publication:
While, to explore the related previous parts of this series, you can click on the following link:
AOS-P4: Apple Open Source - Part 4
Applications of the Apple Open Source
ResearchKit
At TO briefly describe this project as follows:
“It is an open source framework that allows an iOS app to become a powerful tool for medical research. It includes a variety of customizable modules that can be built on and shared with the community."
While, on your own Official website, it is described more fully as follows:
“In 2015, ResearchKit was launched to help researchers address some of the most common challenges facing medical research. Since then, researchers have been able to launch new and innovative studies through applications that reach participants on a large scale and produce innovative information.
Applications that allow them to advance in research and care. In this way, many healthcare providers and researchers around the world are producing new medical discoveries and advancing patient care with applications built with ResearchKit and CareKit, our open source code.
With ResearchKit, CareKit and other tools, many can develop an app that can advance health science through research at scale, or change the way patients are cared for beyond the confines of a laboratory or hospital. the doctor's office."
Useful information about ResearchKit
Much more information is available on ResearchKitThis Open Source Framework, both on the website of Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), dedicated to Research and Care as in your section of App Store apps dedicated to the field of Health and Medicine What do they use ResearchKit and CareKit, which can be accessed by clicking on the following link.
In this last mentioned link, you can see the list of free applications developed by third parties using the Open Source Framework ResearchKit for the benefit of many around the world. For now, it is a small list, but it will surely grow over time. The apps currently created are the following:
Open Source Apps developed under ResearchKit
- Mom Genes Fight PPD: App to fight with postpartum depression
- sarcoidosis: App to offer informative resources about Sarcoidosis.
- BPW: App to follow the growth of the fetus placenta (Estimated Placental Volume - EPV).
- concussion Tracker: App for tracking concussions and recording their symptoms.
- Epi Watch: App for monitoring epilepsy attacks and other data (triggers / medications).
- Mole Mapper Melanoma Study: App for the mapping, measurement and control of skin moles, and thus avoid and the risks of melanoma.
- PRIDE Study: App for data collection in favor of the first large-scale, long-term health study of LGBTQ people.
- My Heart Counts: App to help measure daily activity, fitness and cardiovascular risk.
- VascTrac: App that records and analyzes changes in the daily activity of users.
- MyGeneRank: App to measure genetic risk, and see how behavioral changes can help reduce the chances of developing different diseases.
- WebMD Pregnancy: App for prenatal control that offers reliable health information for future parents, and allows you to follow the growth and development of your baby week by week.
Note: Remember that, to learn more about each of the existing Open Apple Applications, the following websites are available called Open Source - Apple Developer (Open Source - Apple Developer) y MacOS Forge (macOS Forge).
Conclusion
We hope this "useful little post" on this fourth exploration of the «Apple Open Source», offer the opportunity to meet a new, interesting and useful open application developed by the Technological Giant of «Apple»; and is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».
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