NIH may be the next to join Apple and Google in using technology (i.e. smartphones) to help gather information for clinical trials. This new step for the NIH came under the White House’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). President Obama hopes the PMI will “bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes — and to give all of us access to the personalized information we need to keep ourselves and our families healthier.”
To find out more on the studies of using smartphones for clinical studies, continue reading Jonah Comstock’s article in Mobile Health News here.