options for in-app survey integration

[shapironick]

With Qualtrics we have to use the user ID hash when entering the health and HCHO data uploads so that individual users can be tracked over time. In this step from the app to the web browser, we are losing a lot of our participants.

In this thread, I am hoping to aggregate options for integrating HIPPA compliant survey functions within the app. This may be beyond the scope of our initial grant but worth noting:

There are options for custom coding that could integrate Qualtrics within the apps:

• https://api.qualtrics.com/ but they do not offer support for custom coding.

ISO has an open source framework for medical research apps

• http://researchkit.org/

As does android

• http://researchstack.org/

Here are the most affordable compliant services that I found:

• https://www.kinvey.com/ free for developers only supporting one app.
• https://www.truevault.com/pricing.html but still costs $299 per month and does not include secure file storage at that price. They are assuming a much higher user volume than we are anticipating (ops/month=100,000).

Here's an image from Kinvey about the different ways of implementing HIPAA Compliant mHealth apps that provides a nice overview of the issue and its dauntingness:

[shapironick]

I'm wondering if http://docs.opendatakit.org/encrypted-forms/ might be a possible way for us to have better integration in the app and maybe have an actual "upload data" button, and not one that takes you to a form.