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Home » Looking to crowd-sourcing to improve our understanding of fever

Looking to crowd-sourcing to improve our understanding of fever

April 8, 2016 By MassDevice

160407-vector-blog-1x1What, exactly, is a fever?

It’s a surprisingly simple but important question in medicine. While a body temperature of 98.6°F (37°C) is generally considered “normal,” this number doesn’t account for temperature differences between individuals — and even within individuals at various times of the day. While a common sign of infection, fever can also occur with other medical conditions, including autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases.

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“Many factors come together to set an individual’s ‘normal’ temperature, such as age, size, time of day and maybe even ancestry,” says Jared Hawkins, MMSc, PhD, the director of informatics for Boston Children’s Hospital’s Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA) and a member of the hospital’sComputational Health Informatics Program. “We want to help create a better understanding of the normal temperature variations throughout the day, to learn to use fever as a tool to improve medical diagnosis, and to evaluate the effect of fever medications on symptoms and disease course.”

That’s where Feverprints comes in — a free app developed by IDHA and the Autoinflammatory Diseases Clinic at Boston Children’s to capture temperature data from the public. By leveraging ResearchKit, Apple’s open source software framework, the Feverprints team can gather frequent, accurate data shared from people’s iPhones (iPhone 5, iPhone 6) or the latest generation of the iPod Touch. (Unfortunately, Android users won’t be able to participate.)

After downloading the Feverprints app, adults (and children with parental consent) who join the study will be regularly reminded to record their temperature (using any type of thermometer) and answer questions about their symptoms, medications, lifestyle and health. The data will be anonymized and logged in a secure database. All participants will receive a summary of their data and can share it with their doctors.

Read the full post on Vector: Fever, revisited: ResearchKit app will tap crowd-sourced temperature data

The opinions expressed in this blog post are the author’s only and do not necessarily reflect those of MassDevice.com or its employees.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Vector Blog

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