????該公司營銷負責人詹妮弗?泰伊指出，通過這兩款軟件，他們從正在嘗試受孕和追蹤自己經(jīng)期的女性那里得到了非常多的信息，該公司由此掌握了有史以來規(guī)模最大的女性生殖健康數(shù)據(jù)庫。正是出于這個原因，Glow才想用它來做點兒什么。

????泰伊說：“我們真的相信這將改變我們所有人對女性生殖健康的理解方式?！?/p>

????該公司將在10月份首次嘗試對外公布研究成果。屆時，舊金山太平洋不孕癥研究中心（Pacific Fertility Center）專家、Glow公司醫(yī)學顧問菲利普?切尼特博士將在美國生殖醫(yī)學協(xié)會（ASRM）年會上介紹這方面的情況。最近，ASRM接受了切尼特和Glow公司數(shù)據(jù)科學家克里斯?馬丁內(nèi)斯提交的論文摘要，這篇論文由兩人利用匿名用戶數(shù)據(jù)撰寫而成。

????還不清楚醫(yī)學界對他們的研究會持怎樣的態(tài)度。加州大學洛杉磯分校（University of California Los Angeles）婦產(chǎn)科臨床醫(yī)學教授阿帕娜?斯里達爾認為，經(jīng)期跟蹤應(yīng)用軟件是一種非常好的工具，可以幫助女性更好地了解自己的經(jīng)期，但用這種軟件收集的信息可能不完全準確。

????斯里達爾說：“按照我的理解，真正的好應(yīng)用應(yīng)該經(jīng)過嚴格測試，從而可以得出‘它確實能幫助’某些群體的結(jié)論。”她還表示，對任何打算對它所掌握數(shù)據(jù)下結(jié)論的軟件來說，這一點都很重要，“必須非常小心地對待他們的研究。”

????麥克?黃指出，Glow公司無意自行發(fā)表醫(yī)學報告，但該公司仍認為它所收集的數(shù)據(jù)和觀察意見能為醫(yī)學界提供幫助。女性生殖健康數(shù)據(jù)依然匱乏。對Glow公司來說，任何零星數(shù)據(jù)都有其用武之地。（財富中文網(wǎng)）

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????Together, the two apps are accruing so much data from women trying to conceive and women tracking their menstrual cycles that Glow is sitting on one of the largest datasets for women’s reproductive health ever assembled, says Jennifer Tye, Glow’s head of marketing. Which is why Glow wants to do something with it.

????“We really do believe it will change the way we all understand women’s reproductive health,” Tye says.

????The company’s first attempt at publishing research will come in October when Dr. Philip Chenette, a specialist at the Pacific Fertility Center in San Francisco and a medical adviser to Glow, will present at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s annual conference. ASRM recently accepted an abstract for a paper that Chenette and Glow data scientist Chris Martinez wrote and submitted, drawing from user-anonymized data.

????It’s unclear how the medical community will receive their research. Aparna Sridhar, a clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California Los Angeles, says that period-tracking apps are great ways for women to understand their cycles better, but the information aggregated by them may not be 100% accurate.

????“My idea of an app that is really good is one that has had rigorous testing to say that ‘this really helps,’ with proper groupings,” Sridhar says, adding that it’s important for any app to do this before making any assumptions on its data. “You have to look at their research really carefully,” she says.

????Huang says Glow has no intention of producing medical publications of its own, but continues to believe that the data and insights it collects can be helpful to the medical community. There remains a dearth of statistical knowledge about women’s reproductive health. For Glow, every little bit helps.