
Developing a healthcare application is no simple task. Most applications in the healthcare space need to be HIPAA-compliant, ADA-compliant, and user-friendly for every type of patient that comes to you seeking help.
Crowdbotics provides managed app development to help healthcare providers build patient-facing, vendor-specific, or administrative tools. Our custom software solutions for hospitals and independent physicians can improve operations, simplify billing, and deliver better patient outcomes.
One of the first steps you need to take before embarking on a healthcare app development project is to define the purpose of your app. You need to know from the first day of work who your application is intended to serve and how it will help.
The features of a healthcare app will differ depending on whether you’re trying to help healthcare professionals or patients.
Healthcare app solutions for professionals and providers usually include features that increase efficiencies, enable better team collaboration, enhance communication, and create stronger relationships between doctors and nurses and the patients they encounter while on the job.
Healthcare apps for patients usually include features that make medical records more accessible, facilitate appointment scheduling, improve patient experience, enable communication with care providers, and provide helpful resources and guidance to people when they need help.
The following use cases are often the most beneficial for your industry. Click to learn more:
Crowdbotics can help providers develop these healthcare applications and more:
Managed app development with Crowdbotics isn’t a typical outsourced development experience. It’s a hands-on collaboration between you and our dedicated team of experts to plan, design, build, and release your app at the highest possible quality and on your preferred timeline.
Here's what to expect:
Healthcare apps can include many different features depending on the intended purpose and audience.
Telehealth apps include features such as text messaging, emailing, audio and video calling, photo and video sharing, appointment reminders, appointment scheduling, and more.
Staff scheduling apps include features such as shift management, shift reminders, shift trading, team messaging, and more.
Hospital wayfinding apps include features such as GPS locating, interactive maps, photos of hospital wings and buildings, contact information, and more.
Medical records apps include features such as medical records management, doctor/patient communication, lab result history, medication history, and more.
Health and wellness apps include features such as content management, video hosting, appointment scheduling, topical education, and more.
In general, most healthcare apps will be required to stay compliant with HIPAA and ADA regulations.
The following users at your organization can benefit the most from working with Crowdbotics. Click to learn more:
Tell us what you want to build. Crowdbotics Product Managers estimate timeline and cost based your unique specifications.
Crowdbotics builds the scaffolding for your application, then iterates and customizes based on your feedback.
Crowdbotics hosts, maintains, updates and scales your project as needed.
Watch your product develop in real-time and compare the cost of new features before you build.
Crowdbotics integrates with your existing product development tools such as Slack, Trello, JIRA, and Github.
Crowdbotics builds with
whitelisted code packages corresponding to your
desired features.
Domain-expert developers and PMs build to your custom specifications.
You own it. Fork and export code anytime.
Tell us what you want to build. Crowdbotics product managers estimate timeline and cost based your unique specifications.
Crowdbotics builds the scaffolding for your application, then iterates and customizes based on your feedback.
Crowdbotics hosts, maintains, updates and scales your project as needed.
Watch your product develop in real-time and compare the cost of new features before you build.
Crowdbotics seamlessly integrates into existing product development tools such as Slack, Trello, JIRA and Github.
Crowdbotics build with
whitelisted code packages corresponding to your
desired features.
Domain-expert developers and PMs build to your custom specifications.
You own it. Fork and export code anytime.
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Read the full success storyOur process leverages a simple truth about software development: most new applications look like applications that have been built before.
No matter how unique your idea is, there are fundamental best practices and code packages that are used by developers across the globe to build leading applications.
Rather than reinvent the wheel for each new app, our platform offers a growing catalog of prebuilt app features and product specs for you to pull right off of the shelf.
This enables us to assemble the basic structure of your application instantaneously, leaving more time for customization and fine-tuning.
Professional teams choose Crowdbotics for simple SaaS integrations, enterprise-scale trading platforms, and everything in between.
Our core stack is React Native + Django, but our expertise extends to all modern (and some not-so-modern) frameworks and languages.
Whatever your software development needs are, our experts are standing by to deliver your build on time and as specified. Here are a few industries that we're especially experienced in:
Managed app development with Crowdbotics starts at $199/month.
Once your account is set up, you can launch a basic starter app and see it live in seconds!
From there, you can build out an MVP within weeks or deploy your full-production app with the help of our expert PMs and developers.
Whether you work with Crowdbotics or a different third-party development partner, the overall best practices for building an app will be consistent for any team:
Crowdbotics provides infrastructure, implementation, maintenance, operations, monitoring, and security for over 500 kinds of software applications including web and mobile apps.
"The Crowdbotics team immediately understood what I was looking for and helped me build an even better app than I originally imagined. For non-developers like myself, they were the perfect partner."
Building a healthcare app can be a lot of work, but there are clear benefits that can come as a result of going through the process:
Improve Patient Experience
Developing healthcare apps can help you provide a better experience to patients coming to you to receive care.
Differentiate From Local Competitors
Developing healthcare apps can help you provide more services and value to patients, which makes it easier to differentiate from other local competitors.
Improve Hospital Efficiencies
Developing healthcare apps can help you improve efficiencies throughout your organization, such as scheduling staff, managing patient appointments, keeping records up-to-date, or managing billing.
Accelerate Patient Throughput
Developing healthcare apps can help you accelerate the time it takes to move patients through the process of receiving care and services from your hospital.
Create More Revenue Through Innovation
Developing healthcare apps can bring new innovation to your organization, which in turn could help you create more revenue opportunities.
Crowdbotics enables you to easily build the following healthcare API integrations in to your app:
Based on our internal data, an average health care app usually costs $30,156 to build. However, the total cost can be as low as $9,000 or as high as $76,000. A health care app with a low number of features (also known as a "minimum viable product", or MVP) will be more affordable than an app that includes all intended functionality.
Consumer-focused health care apps, such as medication trackers, will be more affordable than business applications, such as an ERP system for a large hospital network.
A health care app usually takes a little over 300 hours of development time to build. However, a health care app can be built in as few as 70 hours, or in as many as 500 hours. The exact timeline mostly depends on how complicated your app is. As a general rule, it will take longer if you require highly custom designs, niche features, or non-standard release platforms.
As with any type of innovation, there are risks and challenges associated with developing a healthcare application.
Common Risks & Challenges Include:
Crowdbotics can help you mitigate or completely avoid these risks and more.
Why do healthcare companies choose Crowdbotics as a partner when they need to bring a new idea or innovation to life? Here are a few benefits of working with Crowdbotics:
You Retain Ownership of the Code
Crowdbotics gives you complete ownership of the code used to build your app, allowing you to audit, customize, and stay compliant long after you’ve launched your app.
You Stay HIPAA-Compliant
Crowdbotics ensures that the app you build and launch is fully compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
You Get to Build & Launch Faster
Crowdbotics has an ever-growing library of app modules that allow you to build faster and focus more time and energy on unique features.
You Spend Less Time & Money
Crowdbotics enables you to work more efficiently than you would with a traditional app developer, which can save you time and money over time.
You Get Access to Industry-Experienced Developers
Crowdbotics can connect you to a network of healthcare app developers who can help you take your project to the finish line or entirely off your shoulders.
You Get Dedicated Team Members
Crowdbotics can pair you with a dedicated team of Crowdbotics experts who will work with you directly as you develop and release your app.