2. Symptom and Measurement Tracker, which lets people record symptoms and things like their temperature;
3. Insight Dashboard, which maps symptoms against the action items in the Care Card to reveal efficacy;
4. Connect, which lets people to share information and communicate with various health care providers and family about health status.

“With ResearchKit, we quickly realized the power of mobile apps for running inexpensive, high-quality clinical studies with unprecedented reach,” Dr. Ray Dorsey, of the University of Rochester Medical Center, said in Apple's statement. “We hope that CareKit will help us close the gap between our research findings and how we care for our Parkinson’s patients day-to-day. It’s opening up a whole new opportunity for the democratization of research and medicine.”
Some developers already using CareKit include:

1. Sage Bionetworks and the University of Rochester developing a tool to inform patients about their condition and care providers about treatment.
2. The Texas Medical Center is designing apps to let patients connect with care teams.
3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is developing secure methods to let patients handle chronic care management through home health monitoring devices.
4. One Drop is developing management approaches for diabetics.
5. Start, by Iodine, helps manage antidepressant medication.
6. Glow is planning to incorporate CareKit modules into its pregnancy app, Glow Nurture.

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