Healthcare App Development
Healthcare app development is ordinary engineering carried out under rules that are anything but ordinary. Patient data has to sit somewhere specific, reach only certain people, and leave a record of every time it moved. We build patient apps, the tools clinicians use beside them and the integrations into systems you already run. Most first releases go live in about 30 days.
- Price
- Fixed upfront
- Launch date
- In writing
- First release
- About 30 days
- You get
- Apps, admin and source code
Compliance is the build, not a document at the end.
Access control, audit trails and data residency are structural. Bolting them on after a demo means rewriting the parts that touch patient data, which is most of them. A healthcare app development company that treats this as paperwork will cost you that rewrite.
Your rules decide the architecture
HIPAA, GDPR and India's DPDP each pull the design a different way, so we ask which apply before scoping.
It runs in your cloud, not ours
Your account, your agreement with the provider, your data. We build and test against synthetic records.
Integration is most of the work
An app nobody can connect to the record system is a second place to type everything twice.
The code is yours
Your repository, your accounts, documentation written for whoever comes next.
The usual quote
- Compliance
- Fully compliant, unexplained
- Patient data
- Wherever the developer hosts
- Integration
- Phase two
- Audit trail
- Rarely mentioned
- Launch date
- An estimate that moves
- After launch
- A new conversation
What you get here
- Compliance
- The controls named, and who is responsible for each
- Patient data
- Your cloud account, your agreements
- Integration
- HL7 and FHIR scoped with the first release
- Audit trail
- Built in, because a reviewer will ask
- Launch date
- A date in writing
- After launch
- Fixes, standards changes and a monthly report
Four pieces, and the one that sets your date.
The integration layer decides the timeline, and it is the piece most quotes leave out. Pick one of them to see inside.
App 01 of 03
The patient app
Somebody manages a condition here between clinic visits, often on an old phone and a poor connection.
- Accounts and identitySign-up, verification and recovery a clinical team would accept as proof of who somebody is.
- Care plans and contentLessons, instructions and reminders, ordered and versioned rather than hard coded.
- Check-ins and symptom logsStructured questions with answers a clinician reads at a glance.
- Readings from devicesBlood pressure, glucose and weight from wearables and connected meters.
- Secure messagingConversation with a care team, under the retention rules your regulator expects.
- AccessibilityContrast, text sizing and screen reader labels, since patients are not a young sample.
App 02 of 03
Clinician and staff tools
Your team reads what patients send here, and then decides what happens next for each of them. This half is what makes the product usable, rather than a data collection exercise with a logo.
- Patient lists and flagsWho needs attention today, ordered by rule rather than by whoever shouts.
- Review and escalationA response marked as seen, a case escalated, and a record of who acted.
- Care plan assignmentDifferent pathways for different cohorts, changed without a developer.
- Field and visit workflowsScheduling, addresses and status for teams who travel to patients.
- Notes and documentsConsent forms, lab orders and uploads, stored where your rules allow.
- Roles and permissionsWho sees which patients, enforced on the server rather than hidden in the interface.
Open slot · built to order
Integration
This layer decides whether your product joins the clinical record or merely sits beside it. It gets scoped first, because it sets the date.
- EHR and EMR integrationReading and writing to the record systems your partners run.
- HL7 and FHIR standardsMessages and resources mapped properly, against a real sandbox rather than a document.
- DICOM where imaging is involvedStudies stored and retrieved to the standard imaging teams expect.
- Device and wearable dataApple Health, Google Health Connect and connected meters, normalised on the way in.
- Identity and directoriesSingle sign-on for staff, and patient identity matched across systems without duplicates.
- Interfaces you already paid forExisting integration engines reused rather than replaced for the sake of it.
App 04 of 03
Admin, audit and access
A security review will read this part first. It is built from the first release, since retrofitting it later means touching everything you shipped.
- Role-based accessPermissions per role and per site, applied to every endpoint and every export.
- Audit trailsWho saw what, when, and what changed, kept for the period your rules demand.
- Data residencyRecords in the region your regulator requires, with backups in the same place.
- Consent and retentionConsent captured with a version, and data removed on the schedule you set.
- ReportingCohorts, adherence and outcomes, exported for the partner or payer who asked.
- EnvironmentsSynthetic data for building and testing, so development never touches live records.
From a reading to a record.
Six steps sit between a patient tapping a phone and a clinician acting on what they sent. Each one is a decision your costed plan names.
- 01
Patient
A patient checks in
A structured answer or a device reading, captured in seconds rather than typed.
- 02
System
It is stored
Encrypted, in your cloud account, in the region your rules require.
- 03
System
A rule fires
Thresholds you set raise the ones that matter, rather than everything at once.
- 04
Clinician
A clinician reviews
The flag, the history and the context on one screen, with an action recorded.
- 05
System
The record is updated
Written back over HL7 or FHIR, so the clinical record stays the source of truth.
- 06
You
You report on it
Adherence, outcomes and activity, in the format your partner or payer asked for.
A healthcare app features list, in full.
Healthcare software development quoted as one number hides the integration and the audit work entirely. Your costed plan names what lands first and what waits.
- Patient accounts and identityVerification, recovery and the proof of identity your clinical governance asks for.
- Care plans and pathwaysVersioned content, assigned per cohort, changed by your team rather than by us.
- Check-ins and symptom trackingStructured questions, schedules and reminders with sensible escalation.
- Remote patient monitoringReadings from devices, trends over time and thresholds that raise a flag.
- Healthcare wearables integrationApple Health, Health Connect and connected meters, normalised on arrival.
- EHR and EMR integrationReading and writing patient records against the systems your partners run.
- HL7 and FHIR standardsMapped and tested against a sandbox, not assumed from documentation.
- Patient portal developmentThe web side, for people who would rather not install anything.
- Secure messaging and documentsConversation, uploads and consent forms with retention rules applied.
- Role-based access and auditPermissions per role, and a trail a reviewer can follow.
- Reporting and outcomesAdherence, engagement and clinical measures, exported for partners and payers.
- Admin without a developerContent, cohorts, thresholds and users, all editable by your own team.
Ways a healthcare product earns.
Most of these pay per organisation rather than per person, which changes what the first release has to prove.
- Per site or per seatClinics or practices pay monthly, which suits provider tools and staff-side products.
- Per patient enrolledA fee for each person on a pathway, common where a payer funds the programme.
- Payer and insurer contractsThe insurer pays and the patient does not, so reporting becomes the product.
- Occupational healthEmployers buying access for staff, priced per head and renewed annually.
- Patient subscriptionDirect payment for a self-management product, usually monthly with a free tier.
- Licensing your contentA curriculum or pathway sold to another provider, with its own tenant and branding.
Example month
A pathway funded by one employer, 900 staff enrolled
- 900 employees at $4 per head
- $3,600
- Hosting and integration running cost
- -$420
- Clinical review and content updates
- -$600
- Support and monitoring
- -$350
An illustration, not a forecast. Running cost depends on residency rules, integration volume and how much clinical review your content needs, which is why your plan prices those before you build.
Who we build healthcare apps for.
Tell us who touches patient data, and which rules apply. The build gets scoped around those two answers.
Clinician-led digital health startups
Founded by doctors with a clinical model, reaching patients through practices or employers.
Built to fit
- A pathway engine your clinical team edits without us
- Cohorts and evidence rather than a feed
- Reporting an employer or insurer will accept
Clinics and specialty groups
Follow-up after a visit lives in phone calls, emails and a spreadsheet, and nobody is sure who replied.
Built to fit
- Structured check-ins after a procedure
- A staff queue with flags and escalation
- One record of who acted, and when
Diagnostics and field services
Teams that travel to patients, where the clinical work happens at an address rather than in a clinic.
Built to fit
- Dispatch, service areas and visit status
- Consent forms and secure uploads from the doorstep
- Lab orders attached to the right patient
Hospitals and provider groups
The systems already exist, so the question is integration rather than another application on the pile.
Built to fit
- HL7 and FHIR against your record system first
- Single sign-on and directory matching
- Security documentation your review will ask for
Insurers and occupational health
Funding care for a whole population, and needing evidence that the money changed anything.
Built to fit
- Per-employer tenants with their own reporting
- Outcome measures you already report on
- Enrolment that works without a clinic visit
Teams inheriting a system
A product built on a low-code platform, or by somebody who has since moved on, and now in your name.
Built to fit
- An honest read of what is there, in writing
- The existing system kept running and documented
- A replacement built in releases rather than a big bang
A price and a date you can plan around.
- 01 · Before we start
Free costed plan
Tell us the idea. You get the scope, a fixed price and a launch date in writing, free, whether you go ahead or not.
- 02 · Week 1
Design and prototype
Your screens in your brand. You click through a working prototype before any code is written.
- 03 · Weeks 2 to 4
Build and test
Our team builds your app and tests every screen. A new build reaches your phone each week.
- 04 · From about day 30
Launch and support
We publish to the App Store and Google Play, then keep the apps fixed, current and running.
Most first releases go live in about 30 days. Larger apps take longer, and your costed plan fixes the scope and the exact date.
What goes live first, and what follows.
Your costed plan splits the build into releases with their own fixed prices and dates. The first one has to be usable by a patient and safe to put clinical data into.
About 30 days
First release
- Patient accounts, identity and consent
- One pathway, with check-ins and reminders
- Clinician list, flags and escalation
- Roles, audit trail and reporting basics
After launch
Second release
- EHR or EMR integration against a live sandbox
- Device and wearable readings
- More pathways and cohort assignment
- Whatever your clinical team keeps asking for
When you need it
As you grow
- More regions, languages and residency rules
- Payer and employer tenants with their own reporting
- Regulatory work if the product becomes a device
- Handover to your own team, when you hire one
We publish your apps. It is in the price.
Every build ends with your apps live on the App Store and Google Play. Submission is part of the job, never an extra: we prepare everything, handle the review and fix whatever the stores ask for.
Included in every build
- Store listings. Name, description, keywords, screenshots and preview images.
- Privacy and compliance. Privacy details, data forms and content ratings each store requires.
- Signed release builds. Built, signed and uploaded for iOS and Android.
- Review and approval. We answer the reviewers and resubmit if anything is flagged.
- Updates after launch. Every new version goes through the same process.
The one cost that is yours
Apple and Google charge for a developer account. It is opened in your company's name, so the apps and their listings always belong to you.
- Apple App StoreUS$99 a yearApple Developer Program
- Google PlayUS$25 onceGoogle Play Console
Store fees are set by Apple and Google and may change.
What it is built with.
Ordinary tools your next developer will already know. Your costed plan names exactly what your build uses.
Apps
- Swift
- Kotlin
- Flutter
- React Native
Web and portals
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
Behind the apps
- Node.js
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
Standards
- HL7 v2
- FHIR
- DICOM
- SMART on FHIR
Devices
- Apple HealthKit
- Google Health Connect
- Bluetooth meters
Hosting
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Your own account
What sets the price.
No two healthcare products carry the same obligations, which is why there is no price list. Your fixed price comes out of the scope, and these six things move it.
Get your fixed priceWhich rules apply
HIPAA, GDPR, DPDP or several at once, each with its own controls to build.
What you integrate with
One record system with a sandbox, or four systems with none.
Who uses it
Patients alone, or patients and clinicians and administrators with different permissions.
Whether devices are involved
Wearables and meters add normalising, calibration and support.
How much content
A single pathway, or a curriculum with versioning and clinical sign-off.
Whether it is a medical device
Regulated software carries documentation that unregulated software does not.
We have built these apps many times.
Your app is designed and built new for your service. What we bring is 1000+ businesses served since 2008 and 150 people in one office in Madurai. That includes VRA, a healthcare product we built and launched for a customer in India. The things that sink a healthcare project are rarely the patient screen. It is usually an integration nobody scoped, or an access rule discovered during a security review.
After launch, we stay.
Rules change, record systems upgrade and clinical teams change their minds about thresholds. The months after launch are the work.
Standards and rule changes
Record systems upgrade and standards move, which breaks integrations that worked perfectly well last quarter. We track the ones that affect you.
Security reviews
Your partners send questionnaires, and hospitals send very long ones. We answer the technical parts and hand over the architecture documentation behind them.
Fixes
Tell us once and we take it from there. Anything affecting patient safety or data access jumps the queue.
Store updates
Health apps get reviewed harder than most. We test against each release, keep your health disclosures accurate and handle the resubmissions.
Monitoring
Errors, integration failures and the servers behind the apps, watched around the clock. A message that quietly stopped reaching a record system is invisible otherwise.
Handover
The apps are yours, along with every account needed to run them. Cloud accounts were always in your name.
What our clients say.
I worked with AppKodes for a website and mobile app development project, and overall, I'm very satisfied with the results. Their team was responsive and flexible throughout the process, and they delivered a product that met my expectations both in design and functionality.
Яша ФирузApr 2025It was a good experience working with the team. They understood my ideas clearly and built everything as expected. The team was supportive, quick to respond, and helped me whenever I needed changes. Thank you for your hard work and support!
Prem SharmaApr 2025Asked before most builds.
Not here? The costed plan answers the rest, for your app.
Your idea stays yours. We can sign an NDA before you share the details, and you hear from us within 24 hours.
How much does healthcare app development cost?
It depends on which rules apply to you, what the app integrates with, how many kinds of user it serves and whether devices are involved. Your fixed price arrives in a free costed plan before any work starts, and it only moves if you change the scope.
What does HIPAA compliant app development actually mean?
Software on its own is never compliant. A covered entity is, and the software either supports that or gets in the way. What we build gives you encryption in transit and at rest, access control by role and audit trails. Session handling and data residency come with it, documented so your own assessment has something to cite. The system runs inside your own cloud account, under the agreement you already hold with the provider.
Do you sign a business associate agreement?
No, and the reason for that matters. Your app runs inside your own cloud account, under your own agreement with the provider. We build and test against synthetic records, so nobody here ever needs to look at live patient data. That keeps protected information inside your boundary. If your governance needs a supplier who signs one, say so at the first call and we will tell you plainly rather than sell around it.
How long does it take to build a healthcare app?
Most first releases go live in about 30 days, covering accounts, one pathway, the clinician side and the audit trail. Integration is what stretches a timeline, because it depends on somebody else's sandbox and somebody else's approvals. We scope that separately with its own date, so a slow third party never quietly moves your launch.
What standards does a healthcare app need?
It depends where you operate and what the app claims. HL7 and FHIR for exchanging records, DICOM where imaging is involved, and HIPAA or GDPR for the data itself. Software that diagnoses or influences treatment falls under the FDA in the United States, or MDR in Europe. From that point on, IEC 62304 governs how the software is developed, tested and documented.
Is my app a medical device?
Possibly, and it is far cheaper to find out now. An app that stores or reminds usually is not. An app that interprets data, or changes a treatment decision, usually is one of them. Your marketing claims count as much as your code. We raise it during scoping, and where it applies we build with the documentation trail that certification later asks for.
Can you integrate with our EHR?
Usually, yes, and the detail decides it. The answer depends on which system, which version, and whether your vendor grants sandbox access. So it is the first thing we check. HL7 v2 and FHIR cover most requests, and where a vendor is difficult we say so early instead of discovering it in week six.
Can you take over an existing healthcare system?
Often, yes, and it is common work. Products built on a low-code platform reach a wall once patient data, mobile apps or audit requirements arrive. We read what is there and report back plainly, including when the honest answer is that rebuilding costs less than repairing. The existing system stays running and documented the whole time.
Who owns the app and the data?
You do, and that covers both of them. The code sits in your own repository, and the cloud accounts stand in your company's name. That is also why patient data never leaves your control. Documentation gets written for a developer who never met us.
Your first release could be live
next month.
Tell us about the app you want to build. We send back a costed plan with a fixed price and a launch date, free and yours to keep.

