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.<p>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 However, as new iOS releases passed, this XML-based framework slowly became outdated and required some extra work to maintain as time went along.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.<p>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.<p>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&#x27;s release.<p>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: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;molsches&#x2F;CareKit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;molsches&#x2F;CareKit</a>