What is healthcare app development?
Healthcare app development is designing and building software that patients, carers or clinicians use to manage health. It includes therapy and self-help programmes, symptom and activity trackers, remote monitoring and patient-to-provider messaging, built to be simple on a bad day and careful with sensitive health data.
What makes a healthcare app different?
A healthcare app is used by people who may be tired, in pain or anxious, so every screen has to be calm and obvious. It handles sensitive health data, often has to meet medical product and data protection rules, and must stay reliable because patients build daily routines around it.
What we build for healthcare
- Digital therapy programmes. Short daily units, guided exercises and progress that keeps patients coming back, as in Edupression.
- Symptom and activity trackers. Pain scales, yes/no checks, time and percentage trackers that patients can set up for themselves, as in MS Buddy.
- Guided exercise and rehab. Session timers, step-by-step exercises and repetitions, saved automatically when a session ends.
- Clinician and admin tools. Dashboards and content tools so care teams can follow progress and update programmes without a new app release.
- Secure accounts and data. Authentication, encrypted data in transit and careful handling of personal health information.
How do you keep patient data safe?
We keep patient data safe by collecting only what the product needs, encrypting data in transit, using secure authentication and role-based access, and hosting in the region your rules require. We work with your compliance team on the requirements that apply to you, such as UK GDPR and EU GDPR, and document how data flows.
How we build a healthcare app
- Discover. Patients, clinicians, the care pathway and the regulatory requirements that apply.
- Design for a bad day. Calm, obvious flows tested with people who match your patients.
- Build. iOS, Android and backend in two-week sprints, with a demo every sprint.
- Test. QA on real devices, plus the documentation your certification process needs.
- Launch and support. Release, monitoring and updates as patients and clinicians give feedback.
Tools and technologies
Healthcare apps are one part of our mobile app development work. We also offer UI/UX design and MVP development for health startups.
