Stanford University has opened up submissions to faculty members for an
Apple Watch Seed Grant, an inaugural
Program "focused on in**vative uses of the
Apple Watch in healthcare" (via
Cult of Mac). The
Program is designed to "stimulate and support" the creation of new uses for the
Apple Watch in the healthcare field, an area that
Apple has long been a proponent of since the wearable launched in 2015.
In total, up to 1,000
Apple Watch devices will be offered through the seed grant program, which is being given $10,000 in funding and run through Stanford's Center for Digital Health within the School of Medicine. The
CDH's proposal **tes mention that while 1,000
Apple Watches will be given out in total, depending on the project proposals that get accepted, a higher or lower allocation of devices may be provided.
Submissions are open to a select group of
Stanford faculty members and close February 26, while the study as a whole will run for one year beginning April 2017. The goal of the
Program is to use either the
Apple Watch's activity tracking or communication features to see how the device can make a change in healthcare:
"The Apple Watch must be integrated into an overall Program or study design where: 1) the sensing capability of the Watch (activity, heart rate, and/or raw accelerometer data) is used to measure the progress of an endpoint relevant to the study population; or 2) the communication/**tification features of the Watch are used to drive behavior change/coaching (investigators must use an iOS app with a Watch app extension or design a workflow where push **tifications can be delivered to the Watch).
The
Apple Watch has been a representative of Apple's push into health initiatives for nearly two years **w, from the
debut of the original device and the Activity Rings in 2015 to the
an**uncement of the fitness-focused
Apple Watch ****** 2 last September. The
Apple Watch is just one part of Apple's health initiatives, however, which consists of
the Health app, HealthKit and CareKit, and a collection of
company acquisitions and
talent hires that highlight its desire to merge health and wellness with tech**logy.
On the eve of the
Apple Watch's launch
Apple CEO
Tim Cook described services like ResearchKit and the Health app as "significantly underestimated" sections of the tech**logy market. When asked about the "next frontiers" in product development, Cook described health initiatives, and all of the progress made by
Apple to provide detailed analysis of a user's well-being, as "the biggest one of all."
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