HEALTHCARE CUSTOM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Software development for the healthcare industry

In the healthcare and wellness space, technology plays a multifaceted role, addressing diverse needs that range from managing electronic health records and scheduling appointments to facilitating patient education and engagement across the entire healthcare continuum, encompassing both pre-operative and post-operative phases.

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What software development for healthcare and wellness entails

In the majority of applications AppIt has developed within the healthcare and wellness industry, the focus revolves around integration.

HEALTHCARE

Within healthcare, integration typically involves linking with an EMR/EHR tool such as Epic, facilitating seamless processes for patient data transfer and scheduling. Alternatively, in certain applications, we engage in integration with sensors or hardware. This integration serves the purpose of collecting dependable and uniform data concerning patient behavior patterns or lifestyle choices, providing healthcare professionals with valuable insights crucial to the continuum of care.

WELLNESS

On the wellness front, integration may take the form of interfacing with a tool like MindBody Online. Alternatively, we might opt for a more comprehensive strategy, replacing existing tools with a bespoke, precisely tailored solution. This custom-built approach ensures that the solution perfectly aligns with the specific needs and dimensions of wellness, delivering an optimized and appropriately sized solution for enhanced functionality and user experience.

Why consider software development in healthcare?

Streamlining Data Collection

The primary objective is to streamline data collection from various sources to ensure the acquisition of clean and consistent data. This, in turn, enhances the ability of physicians and care providers to work with patients toward achieving better health outcomes. Despite even the most engaged patients having gaps in data reporting, a meticulously designed app can significantly reduce barriers to maintaining a stream of consistent and accurate information.

Educating and Engaging Patients Across the Care Continuum

Addressing one of the most challenging aspects of patient care, custom apps play a crucial role in ensuring patients understand what to expect throughout their care journey. This involves educating them on their role in the continuum of care and guiding them on when to reach out to their care team for assistance. Recognizing the uniqueness of each patient, leveraging technology to educate them on common queries or steps, ranging from procedure preparation to parking instructions, not only saves providers valuable time but also standardizes essential messaging. By meeting patients where they are most comfortable - their mobile devices - providers can simplify and personalize the education process.

Proactive Wellness Solutions

Embracing the adage that prevention is better than cure, the focus shifts to addressing wellness needs proactively. With some of the leading causes of death in the US emphasizing the critical importance of prevention, wellness apps emerge as powerful tools. These apps, spanning from mental health to exercise and nutrition, showcase a proven track record in preventing conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes. The design of engaging apps, enriched with educational content and features that patients find enjoyable, becomes instrumental in fostering long-term engagement. In this context, sustained engagement translates into positive statistics in the prevention category.

Saving Valuable Time

Perhaps you’ve tried to absorb large amounts of information or manipulate data sets for scenario planning purposes. Doing so on a mobile device would be painful to say the least. Web apps take advantage of larger screen real estate, allowing for more productive outcomes and a much better user experience.

Engaging Patients

From mental health apps to exercise and nutrition apps, some of the technology our clients have built have a proven track record of prevention as it relates to common diseases, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Designing engaging apps with rich, educational content, as well as features that patients enjoy using are critical to long term engagement. In this case, long term engagement equals positive statistics in the prevention category

Setting Expectations

One of the most challenging aspects of patient care is ensuring patients understand what to expect throughout their care, how to play their part in the continuum of care, and when to reach back out to their care team when they need help. Each patient is uniquely different, and managing the educational side of their care can quickly become untenable for providers.

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Choosing custom software development for the healthcare industry.

In healthcare and wellness discussions, the key focus often centers on the dilemma of building versus buying—deciding between customizing off-the-shelf solutions or developing entirely bespoke ones. Additionally, critical decision factors include choosing integration methods, complying with app store guidelines, and meticulously addressing data privacy, HIPAA compliance, or relevant regulatory requirements like ISO 13485 for medical devices. These considerations play a pivotal role in strategic planning within the healthcare and wellness space.

At AppIt we specialize in custom healthcare software development and as such take all of these factors into consideration, ensuring that you have a mobile application that not only satisfies all requirements and regulations but that also satisfies your audience.

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Common questions from healthcare industry clients

1. Should I build or buy?

In the healthcare space, much of our work involves integration - certainly with EMR systems, but also with other third party platform tools. Many of our clients use platforms to serve their more standard workflows, but for their own unique ways of serving patients, we tend to build custom software to support their unique processes.

2. How should I be preparing for app store guidelines?

Apps that are distributed must be published on the appropriate app stores, whether this app is intended for internal use or patient-facing use. Thinking through your distribution and revenue models will impact which type of app store account you need and which guidelines you will be subject to.

3. How should I think about PII and PHI and app architecture?

Managing PII is different than managing PHI, especially when it comes to how we are setting up the app architecture. Meeting regulatory requirements for data privacy, especially when PHI is involved, has impact on how we design the initial app architecture and the associated costs. Since architecture design is an early decision, it's critical to get this right before app development begins.

4. How do I plan for documentation for compliance like ISO 13485?

While AppIt doesn't consult on submissions or compliance audits for medical devices, we do work with consulting organizations that do this work. AppIt provides proper documentation, from testing to change management that helps our consulting partners streamline their submissions. As our clients plan ahead for streamlined audits or submissions, it's important to review the quality and detail of technical requirements, determine the level of detail in test plans, and ensure that designs are in alignment with technical requirements. It's helpful in the planning stage to ensure a potential vendor has clear, concise answers to how they manage the various stages of the software development lifecycle.

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Our reputation for delivering the highest quality custom apps that enhance, impact and improve lives is well known. Having successfully developed over a thousand apps for clients of every stripe, 5-star ratings, and a serial award winning team – you can be confident your needs are in the best hands.

We improve lives through technology, together.

We believe so strongly in the breakthrough benefits of technology that we are willing to share in the up-front risks of development. Backed by our proven process, we like to put our money where our mouth is.

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Details make the difference. Our four-phase process and detailed estimates eliminate vague or overlooked items, mitigate risk, and provide peace of mind every step of your journey.

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Your project will benefit tremendously from our blended development approach. Our talent allocation model ensures the right resources are in place, at the right time, to deliver the results you need, when you need it.

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HEALTHCARE CUSTOM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Software development for the healthcare industry

we know healthcare apps

What software development for healthcare and wellness entails