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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Quintiles, the world’s largest biopharma services provider, has
announced its contribution of enhancements to the ResearchKit framework
which was designed by Apple to make it easy for researchers to gather
data more frequently and more accurately from research participants
using iPhone apps.
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ResearchKit enables participants to easily complete tasks or submit
surveys right from an app and delivers a simple way to present
participants with an interactive informed consent process. Quintiles
contributed enhancements to the ResearchKit framework to provide
developers with extensions that support additional capabilities which,
in turn, will allow them to create more sophisticated application
experiences. Quintiles plans to use these enhancements to develop
patient engagement tools for ResearchKit-based apps.
As the number one ranked late-phase research organization, Quintiles’
technology and digital health experts are actively integrating and
further enhancing ResearchKit as a tool for its customers' research
studies to deliver a superior patient and caregiver experience.
“Quintiles has a deep understanding of patient behavior, having
conducted more than 400 direct-to-patient programs since 2008,” said
Quintiles President of Technology and Solutions Richard Thomas. “We
embraced those principles in our development of enhancements to the
ResearchKit framework.”
“We believe Quintiles’ contribution of these enhancements is a
significant advancement within the clinical research industry,” Thomas
continued. “They will not only improve the apps Quintiles develops for
its own use, but can enhance all apps developed using ResearchKit.
Working with the ResearchKit framework gives us a profound understanding
of its capabilities and how best to optimize it in the apps we develop
for our clinical research customers.”
For more information on Quintiles’ contributions to ResearchKit, please
visit our website at http://www.quintiles.com/researchapps.
About Quintiles
Quintiles (NYSE: Q) helps biopharma and other healthcare companies
improve their probability of success by connecting insights from our
deep scientific, therapeutic and analytics expertise with superior
delivery for better outcomes. From advisory through operations,
Quintiles is the world’s largest provider of product development and
integrated healthcare services, including commercial and observational
solutions. Conducting operations in approximately 100 countries,
Quintiles is a member of the FORTUNE 500 and has been named to FORTUNE’s
list of the “World’s Most Admired Companies.” To learn more, visit www.quintiles.com.
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