Healthcare

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
Why own it

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
What you get

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.
How it works

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.

  1. 01

    Patient

    A patient checks in

    A structured answer or a device reading, captured in seconds rather than typed.

  2. 02

    System

    It is stored

    Encrypted, in your cloud account, in the region your rules require.

  3. 03

    System

    A rule fires

    Thresholds you set raise the ones that matter, rather than everything at once.

  4. 04

    Clinician

    A clinician reviews

    The flag, the history and the context on one screen, with an action recorded.

  5. 05

    System

    The record is updated

    Written back over HL7 or FHIR, so the clinical record stays the source of truth.

  6. 06

    You

    You report on it

    Adherence, outcomes and activity, in the format your partner or payer asked for.

Features

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 to earn

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
Kept from the month$2,230

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 it is for

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
How it works

A price and a date you can plan around.

  1. 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.

  2. 02 · Week 1

    Design and prototype

    Your screens in your brand. You click through a working prototype before any code is written.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
Store launch

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
Submission, listings and reviewIncluded

Store fees are set by Apple and Google and may change.

Tech

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
Price

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 price
  • Which 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.

Why the date holds

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.

See the apps we build
After launch

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.

Clients

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 2025
It 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 2025
Questions

Asked 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.

Next step

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.

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