Year Of The Participant -- Brought To You By Apple's ResearchKit

The key limitation to the sort of patient-led change Sage and others have long advocated has traditionally been the difficulties of scaling – the challenges of getting beyond the ultra-engaged quantified selfers and the severely afflicted patients (and associated stakeholders). ResearchKit (in partnership with Sage) offers the possibility of changing this, and bringing participatory research to the masses (those with an iPhone, anyway), and extracting at least a measure of control from the medical centers who have dominated it in the past.