Mount Sinai Hospital, one of the first hospitals to utilize Apple’s ResearchKit platform for its Asthma Health app, has recently announced the initial results of a 6-month study that included over 8,600 participants. The app enabled individuals with asthma to participate in a large-scale medical research study by simply using their Apple iPhones. One of the advantages of app-enabled research is the potential broad reach to recruit a population beyond the hospital itself – for this study, 87% of participants lived outside of New York and New Jersey. And what of the data that’s been collected from asthma patients? According to the press release, a newly added function can now link the data into electronic health records at Mount Sinai and certain other facilities, and “may be of great value to the pulmonologists and other clinicians providing care.”