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Apple CareKit - Empowering App Developers and the Best Drug Rehab Centers to Do More with Less

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Perhaps one of the biggest reasons why many healthcare providers don’t take advantage of technology specific to their specialty is the high cost of having apps developed that are suitable for their office and patient needs. This is also why many recovery centers probably don’t utilize mobile health apps more because they have specific metrics which need to be stored and analyzed, specific communications which need to be established with clients in recovery and physical triggers to target while in the program.

Recently, Per Wickstrom of Serenity Recovery had a look at Apple’s new CareKit and remarked that this was finally a tool that could help recovery centers with specific needs to their line of healthcare. He noted that “With a toolkit like Apple CareKit, developers can begin tailoring mobile apps much faster and much cheaper than in the past and this should enable more recovery centers to have special apps developed for working with their clientele.”

Apple CareKit Just Recently Launched

Just launched within the past month or so, the Apple CareKit is being billed as an open source toolkit that can be used by app developers to design apps for healthcare and fitness tracking. Falling somewhere between the two, addiction rehab is both a fitness regimen in that it involves a whole new way of living a healthy lifestyle and rehab is obviously close to healthcare in that addictions are physiological and oftentimes dangerous to combat without proper medical intervention. To date only three developers were approved to design a healthcare app with Apple CareKit, but the trial runs are more than encouraging.

How Rehabs Could Utilize Mobile Apps

Per Wickstrom explains that in the beginning most addicts are signed into a residential treatment facility like one of his throughout various locations in the US. “But,” he says, “There will come a time when they graduate the program and will be sent back out into the world. It is here that we would use a mobile app to communicate personally and often with the recent graduate to offer strength and encouragement on their return to ‘the world’ and we could also monitor their vital signs to measure those against their reported times of wanting to use again.” In other words, a recovery center doesn’t just pass the addict on once they’ve completed the program. Good treatment facilities continue following up on that client.

In the past it was extremely time consuming for developers to code apps proprietary to one branch of medicine or another. Each step along the way needed to be programmed, trialed, reprogrammed, trialed again and then sent off for clinical trials. Apple’s CareKit is already a software tool that can be programmed to do whatever it is the client needs to measure and track. From tracking diabetes to empowering addicts to stay on top of the program, Apple CareKit gives developers the ability to create apps to do just that. With a tool like the CareKit, custom apps will be cheaper and quicker to develop so that treatment facilities like Per’s rehabs can easily request specific apps for their centers. Technology of the future is here today and once again, Apple is at the forefront of innovation.



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