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    Getting Started with ResearchKit
    Getting Started with ResearchKit
    Getting Started with ResearchKit
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    Getting Started with ResearchKit

    By Cessna Edward and Balachandran Dhanush

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    About this ebook

    Enter the era of medical research using mobile devices with the help of this guide on ResearchKit!

    About This Book

    - Create a simple clinical research app using most aspects of ResearchKit
    - Build a simple survey with various data types with the results printed on the screen.
    - A step-by-step guide introducing Apple's ResearchKit and techniques to incorporate it into various apps.

    Who This Book Is For

    This book is aimed at medical researchers with basic iOS coding knowledge and iOS developers looking to create clinical research apps.

    What You Will Learn

    - Learn to create customized consent form
    - Get introduced to two backend services: a simple backend server using Sinatra and Sage Bridge
    - Build a custom task (a conditional survey example) and a navigable task
    - Get an Overview of ResearchKit's open source repository and App Core
    - Interaction with the hardware of the device including the gyro and the motion sensors
    - Learn the basics of this revolutionary technology
    - Get introduced to the barebones app and learn to write your first code

    In Detail

    ResearchKit is an open source software development framework from Apple that lets you easily create mobile applications for clinical research studies. ResearchKit provides you the ability to orchestrate the administration of tasks and recording of the results. ResearchKit provides tasks in order to perform informed consent, active tasks, and surveys.
    Starting with the basics of the ResearchKit framework, this books walks you through the steps of creating iOS applications that could serve as the basis of a clinical research mobile app.
    This book will introduce readers to ResearchKit and how to turn your iPhone into into a clinical research tool. The book will start off by installing and building the research framework in line with the researcher's needs; during this, the reader will learn to embed ResearchKit in the application and create a small task.
    After this, the book will go a little deeper into creating modules for surveys, consents, and so on. The book will also cover the various aspects of privacy and security with regard to participant data, and how to build dashboards for visualizing medical data and results in line with the researcher's requirements: data backends, JSON serialization and deserialization, and so on.
    Readers will be able to fully utilize ResearchKit for medical research, will be able to get more and more patients to participate in their surveys, and will gain insights from the surveys using the dashboards created.

    Style and approach

    A hands-on guide with ample screenshots for you to follow and learn about ResearchKit. Each topic is explained sequentially and placed in context so that you can get a better understanding of every step in the process of creating clinical research apps.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateFeb 18, 2016
    ISBN9781785887994
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      Getting Started with ResearchKit - Cessna Edward

      Table of Contents

      Getting Started with ResearchKit

      Credits

      About the Authors

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

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      Free access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Getting Started

      What is ResearchKit?

      Privacy

      Identification, authentication, and authorization

      Informed consent

      Relationship with HealthKit

      Features not provided by ResearchKit

      The anatomy of a ResearchKit-based application

      Summary

      2. ResearchKit Hello World

      Hello World App

      Create project

      Checkout ResearchKit from GitHub

      Import ResearchKit

      Enable Data Protection

      Hello World!

      Introducing Softwareitis

      Summary

      3. Building Surveys

      ResearchKit object model

      Tasks and steps

      Task view controller and results

      Building surveys

      Instruction step

      Question step

      Form step

      Considerations for real-world surveys

      BONUS: Appearance customization

      Summary

      4. ResearchKit Informed Consent

      Consent document

      Visual consent step

      Consent review step

      Consent sharing

      Consent process

      Obtaining results

      Summary

      5. Active Tasks

      Active tasks

      Short walk task

      Sample code

      Results

      Screenshot

      Two-finger tapping interval task

      Sample code

      Results

      Screenshot

      Fitness task

      Sample code

      Results

      Screenshot

      Spatial memory task

      Sample Code

      Results

      Screenshot

      Sustained phonation task

      Sample code

      Results

      Screenshot

      Data formats

      Pedometer data

      Location data

      Device motion data

      Accelerometer data

      Audio data

      Summary

      6. Navigable and Custom Tasks

      Navigable ordered tasks

      Custom tasks

      Summary

      7. Backend Service

      Why is backend service needed?

      Security and privacy

      Introduction to Sage Bionetworks and the Bridge service

      Introduction to sample ResearchKit backend server

      Serialization of task results

      The serialization of survey responses

      Serialization of file results

      Summary

      8. Where to Go from Here

      Restoring tasks

      Graphs and charts

      Pie chart

      Line graph

      Discrete graph

      Scheduling

      Cron expressions

      APCSchedule Expression

      Safeguarding Data-in-transit

      A theoretical architecture for ResearchKit-based applications

      Presentation layer

      Business logic layer

      Data substrate layer

      Online ResearchKit resource

      Summary

      Index

      Getting Started with ResearchKit

      Getting Started with ResearchKit

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      Credits

      Authors

      Dhanush Balachandran

      Edward Cessna

      Reviewers

      Oliver Gepp

      Andreas Griesser

      Commissioning Editor

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      Acquisition Editor

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      About the Authors

      Dhanush Balachandran has a vast experience in creating mobile apps for healthcare industry that include several ResearchKit apps. He was the lead iOS engineer at Jiff, a healthcare start-up and later worked on ResearchKit-based apps for leading institutions. Currently, he is an iOS engineer at DJI. He is also the founder & CEO of mobile app startup, Sortly.

      Edward Cessna is the software engineering director for Y Media Labs, a digital agency in Northern California that creates mobile applications. He has three decades of software engineering experience—ranging from embedded software providing cryptographic services to a multitude of iOS applications. He has been working with iOS since its first public release in July 2008. He has managed the development effort for a number of ResearchKit-based applications for leading research institutions.

      About the Reviewers

      Oliver Gepp is a senior software engineer at Zühlke Group, Switzerland with a strong focus on mobile apps. He has a diploma in media computer science from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Most of his projects are in the insurance and banking business, where he covers the whole application life cycle such as business analysis, development, and testing. His passion is developing mobile apps for the iOS platform not only in Swift and Objective-C, but also with cross platform technologies such as Xamarin.

      Andreas Griesser is leading the business development at Zühlke Group, Switzerland in the area of LabScience, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology. He holds a master's degree in telecommunication, mathematics, and informatics from the Technical University of Graz, Austria and a PhD in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland (ETH). During his career, he was involved in research projects of real-time three-dimensional scanning, general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU), and medical image analysis.

      Under his current activities at Zühlke in the healthcare sector, he focuses on topics such as digital transformation and connected devices—not only on a technical level, but also with a business-related perspective.

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      Preface

      This book helps you get started on creating ResearchKit-based applications. ResearchKit™ is an open source framework introduced by Apple that allows researchers and developers to create powerful apps for medical research.

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, Getting Started, introduces ResearchKit and explains the anatomy of a ResearchKit-based application.

      Chapter 2, ResearchKit Hello World, helps you create your first ResearchKit application and teaches how to integrate ResearchKit in your projects.

      Chapter 3, Building Surveys, covers how to create and present clinical surveys. In this process, you'll also learn about the ResearchKit object model.

      Chapter 4, ResearchKit Informed Consent, explains how to create, present, and obtain informed consent to participate in clinical studies from the end users.

      Chapter 5, Active Tasks, covers how to use active tasks—one of the most important features of ResearchKit.

      Chapter 6, Navigable and Custom Tasks, helps you create smart surveys that can skip questions based on the answers provided by users.

      Chapter 7, Back End Service, explains how to serialize task results to send to a backend service.

      Chapter 8, Where to go from here, helps you learn various tools and tips to create real-world ResearchKit applications.

      What you need for this book

      iOS Software development tools: Xcode 7.0 or higher

      iOS Device (iPhone or iPad) to use sensors, GPS, and so on

      Basic knowledge of iOS and Swift 2.0

      Access to the Internet to download the source code associated with this book

      Who this book is for

      This book is aimed at medical researchers with basic iOS coding knowledge and iOS developers looking to create clinical research apps.

      Conventions

      In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their

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