Google has partnered with Harvard Medical School to launch an app that allows anyone with an Android phone to participate in medical studies.
The Google Health Studies app, available now, will train it sights first on respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19 and the common flu.
With this new app, participants can provide data either through response to surveys or through sensory readings such as heart rate and temperature obtained through the phone.
The project is being joined by Boston Children’s Hospital.
Dr. John Brownstein, Chief Innovation Officer of the Boston Children’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School, emphasized the importance of such a potentially powerful tool in the effort to combat the epidemic.
