App Store rejected my app 5.1.1 Guidelines, However live apps has similar case.

Hello Everyone

I have uploaded an app to the app store which offers medical information to medical professionals, similar business models are live on the app store. but my app got rejected and this is the reason

Guideline 5.1.1 - Legal - Privacy - Data Collection and Storage

We found in our review that your app does not meet all of our requirements for apps that offer highly regulated services or handle sensitive user data. Specifically:

  • The account that submits the app must be enrolled in the Apple Developer Program as an organization, and not as an individual.

The guideline 5.1.1(ix) requirements give App Store users confidence that apps operating in highly regulated fields or that require sensitive user information are qualified to provide these services and will responsibly manage their data.

Like I said there are individual developers with live app that offer the same information, I have added my sources of information inside the app, and put 4-5 disclaimers in the app and in the description and removed 2 functionalities of app to adhere to apple app store guidelines.

However it got rejected again, so anyone can help me?

What could I do short of starting my own medical company to get this app published like so many others -who even do not cite their sources.

Thanks in advance

In North America medical advice is regulated hence you're either a medical institution or a licensed doctor providing such information or proof that the work was done on behalf of such. Hence the rejection. Each case is a special case meaning you don't know what the other developers provided to Apple prior to Approval.

App Store rejected my app 5.1.1 Guidelines, However live apps has similar case.
 
 
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