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by markolschesky
3705 days ago
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I recently helped a research group at a healthcare organization build a HIPAA-compliant version of mixpanel into their application to help patients with CBTi. The app used this XML-based framework to manage the formatting of the questions so that the researchers (who were pretty tech savvy) could manipulate the questions. The XML-framework itself was a bit of a mess, but it got the job done. However, as new iOS releases passed, this XML-based framework slowly became outdated and required some extra work to maintain as time went along. Having an Apple-approved way to build surveys seems like it is the solution to that problem. I could see a researcher who was technical enough being able to extend CareKit to be able to manage their own study without the help of a dedicated iOS dev everytime they needed to make a change to a question or survey. Part of that is CareKit, part of that is the fact that Swift seems more approachable than Objective-C. This was included in ResearchKit, but CareKit provides a way to track if people have completed daily steps and visualizing that for end users. It only took me 5 minutes from cloning the demo app and plugging in my HealthKit Entitlements that I was able to extend the sample app to track Asthma Inhaler Usage. EHR integration will still be a challenge, but these are the type of things that my team working on Redpoint at Catalyze will work on like we did with HealthKit on it's release. If you want to check out how I extended the sample project to include a new activity to track, you can check out my fork here: https://github.com/molsches/CareKit |
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