ResearchStack is ResearchKit for Android

ResearchStack

ResearchKit is coming to Android… Not really, but something similar is development as we speak.

Called ResearchStack, the platform will use similar or even same principles to include Android users to mobile-enabled clinical studies around the world.

“An overriding goal of ResearchStack is to help developers and researchers with existing apps on iOS more easily adapt those apps for Android,” the project’s website reads. “Though the correspondence of features between the two SDKs isn’t one-to-one, the two SDKs will offer enough shared functionality and a common framework and naming scheme to greatly speed up adaptation of ResearchKit apps to Android (and ResearchStack apps to iOS) and the procedural aspects of running a study on a new platform (such as IRB approval and secure connectivity with a data collection backend).”

One of the projects ResearchStack will support is Mole Mapper, which was developed by the Oregon Health and Science University for a melanoma study.Backed by Robert Wood Johnson, ResearchStack is a collaborative effort between Cornell Tech, the nonprofit group Open mHealth; and Android development firm Touchlabare. Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science and Public Health at Cornell Tech and Cornell Medical College respectively, the co-founder of Open mHealth, promoting an open standard for mobile health data, is heading up the project.

One of the projects ResearchStack will support is Mole Mapper, which was developed by the Oregon Health and Science University for a melanoma study.

Google isn’t officially backing up the project, though they may be there, somewhere in the background. Depending how it progresses, perhaps — at some point in the future — ResearchStack will get the search giant’s “official seal of approval.” We’ll make sure you don’t miss a beat, have no doubts about it…

[Via: MedCityNews]