IPad/app use analysis software?

Hi folks,
A buddy and I teach student and resident physician trainees. We show our trainees how to find medical information to guide care. We have given each an iPad loaded with medical software. We would like to know if there is a way to track their usage in terms of what apps they use, what kind of info they look up, how frequently they do so, how quickly they access information (which apps do they use to find info for 30 seconds at a time and which ones do they read for 30 minutes at a time), ratio of medical use to Angry Birds, and perhaps more.
Is there usage analytics software out there which would enable us as educators to learn how our trainee users of our devices use the tools? This would not be surreptitious, the trainees would know that we're tracking their use and would give consent, so we're not talking about spyware in its evil exploitative non-consentual sense.
Grateful for your responses.
-- Joshua Steinberg MD

My colleague has not found anything in the App Store either, but there's a lot of stuff in the store which we may overlook, which is why I'm crowd-sourcing our question to this forum of smart experienced people.
I wonder whether Apple would permit what is essentially consensual spyware!
But I don't want to derail this discussion with speculation. Still hoping folks can comment on whether they know if there is such software out there already, or perhaps if such software is impossible because it would violate iOS development policy and I shouldn't bother looking any further.
-- Josh

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Hi folks,
A buddy and I teach student and resident physician trainees. We show our trainees how to find medical information to guide care. Each has an iPhone (or iPad in some cases) loaded with medical software. We would like to know if there is a way to track their usage in terms of what apps they use, what kind of info they look up, how frequently they do so, how quickly they access information (which apps do they use to find info for 30 seconds at a time and which ones do they read for 30 minutes at a time), ratio of medical use to Angry Birds, and perhaps more.
Is there usage analytics software out there which would enable us as educators to learn how our trainee users of our devices use the tools? This would not be surreptitious, the trainees would know that we're tracking their use and would give consent, so we're not talking about spyware in its evil exploitative non-consentual sense.
Grateful for your responses.
-- Joshua Steinberg MD

My colleague has not found anything in the App Store either, but there's a lot of stuff in the store which we may overlook, which is why I'm crowd-sourcing our question to this forum of smart experienced people.
I wonder whether Apple would permit what is essentially consensual spyware!
But I don't want to derail this discussion with speculation. Still hoping folks can comment on whether they know if there is such software out there already, or perhaps if such software is impossible because it would violate iOS development policy and I shouldn't bother looking any further.
-- Josh

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