Custom Healthcare Software Development: The Advanced Guide for 2024
Igor Kravchuk
Vlad Nazarov
How can custom healthcare software solutions streamline your medical practice in 2024? And how can you develop an efficient piece of healthcare software at a reasonable cost?
In this article (organized as an FAQ), we’ll tell you everything there is to know about software development in healthcare, including general healthcare digitalization trends in the context of medical applications, devices, organizations, and more.
In the competitive world of healthcare, it is easy to forget about patient care in terms of overall customer satisfaction. Crowded waiting rooms, long wait times, inefficient billing systems, and difficulty scheduling appointments are all very real problems that can cause patients to lose their patience.
Low morale among overworked, stressed-out staff members adds to negative patient experiences. To turn things around and improve employee and patient satisfaction, many medical practices are adopting custom clinic management software solutions and other types of medical software. Implementing tailored solutions through healthcare IT consulting services can address these challenges and enhance patient satisfaction and operational efficiency.
At TATEEDA, our wealth of experience in assembling outsourcing teams has enabled American businesses to achieve significant savings of over 30% on their IT innovation budgets. By tapping into our remote software engineering expertise, we deliver top-notch, budget-friendly solutions that enhance operational excellence. For a project estimate, reach out to us today →
Let’s learn more with our guide to custom healthcare software product development…
| Who are we? TATEEDA GLOBAL is a San Diego software development company that can help you with HIPAA-compliant software design for healthcare digitalization. We have vast experience with medical startups and companies across the U.S. and California. Learn about our experience with HIPAA software development in healthcare ⇒ If you are interested in medical software developers, consider us: ✔️ We are headquartered in the U.S. (San Diego, CA) and have local project experts and software engineers available for personalized communications and technical consulting. ✔️ We offer a convenient time zone for North American clients, dedicated project managers, and favorable project rates, thanks to our well-organized R&D branch in Ukraine and other countries. ✔️ We are open for free tech consulting. Do you need expert tech advice for medical device software development? Please reach out to our medical software engineers today ⇒ |
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What Are the Key Healthcare Digitalization Trends in 2024?
Can we name some of the top trends in healthcare software product development specific to 2024? Some have emerged as responses to crises, while others are organic products of technological progress and should be valued as potential keys to better healthcare in the future.
These factors and IT outsourcing trends will only grow stronger over the coming decade, and should not be overlooked if you are seeking to occupy a sustainable business position in the future health service landscape.
In 2024, we’ll see how concepts in digital transformation for healthcare are embodied in the context of both major and minor aspects and projects, including software development for healthcare, new healthcare legislation, innovative business approaches, and next-gen technologies applied in practice.
Learn more: ➡️ 17 Major Healthcare Technology Trends
Let’s check out a few of them…
Trend #1. Medical Staff Shortage is Getting Worse, Requiring IT-backed Solutions
The United States, in addition to many other developed countries, is facing a rising crisis in the healthcare and lab workforce (and the crunch started long before 2024.)
This burden can be alleviated via the adoption of specific software to implement greater workforce mobility (like travel nurse services and medical job platforms.)
For example, TATEEDA GLOBAL is partnering with Travel Nurse Healthcare to develop an online travel nurse system that can help cover nurse vacations and fill workforce gaps across the U.S. quickly and flexibly.
We developed many important software features for Travel Nurse Healthcare, including…
- Automated financial reporting and time-management modules.
- Distinct mobile applications for different user groups: nurses, admins, and healthcare representatives.
- A protected portal for nursing staff and medical representatives for clinical use.
Learn more about Travel Nurse Healthcare’s system development [case study] ⇒
Slava Khristich
Healthtech CTO
Based in San Diego, Slava knows how to design an efficient software solution for healthcare, including IoT, Cloud, and embedded systems.
Trend #2. Patient-centered Healthcare Comes with Risk
Healthcare software is bringing higher levels of automation to huge hospitals, private clinics, pharmacies, community health centers, boutique professionals, and small ERs. This approach allows healthcare employees to perform better in the context of data management, including medical data collection, recording, interpretation, access, and navigation. But that’s not all…
Modern software development in healthcare tends to adhere to person-centered models in which the patient becomes a backbone entity with all associated data grouped around them (i.e., the specific person is the key to all their documents and records.) This means lifelong, cross-platform medical data accumulation for each individual via integrated healthcare systems like custom EHR & EMR products.
Potentially, this approach will lead to continuous maintenance of a complete health dossier encompassing each patient’s whole path from embryonic development to geriatric age, including history of chronic illnesses, allergies, lifestyles, and much more. Here’s why this is a good thing:
- A patient-centered approach unveils enormous opportunities in the delivery of highly personalized preventative treatment and specialty care for everyone.
- The risk of medical error can be significantly reduced.
- All healthcare providers have equal access to patient records.
- Greater potential for medical research and statistics. If medical scholars and scientists can access the verified data of millions, they can efficiently discover certain correlations and patterns in medical data, and their findings will help to improve healthcare overall.
Are there any downsides? If a hacker hijacks the complete track to your health specifics, illnesses, and health conditions, it could become a serious problem. In other words, healthcare products that read, manage, or add any kind of PHI should be highly protected against all possible scenarios of maleficent intrusion and data leaks.
| Are you interested in secure software engineering for your healthcare products? It’s necessary to design and build advanced medical software in compliance with HIPAA requirements (or go even further!) If you are not sure how to make your product completely secure and HIPAA-compliant, or you need any type of help with this task (including team augmentation), contact us at TATEEDA GLOBAL. ➡️ We can provide you with free consulting, advice, and/or project estimates! |
Trend #3. IoT Will Make Many Health Services More Accessible and Omnipresent…Yet This Will Also Add a Certain Vulnerability
One major factor propelling the adoption of healthcare IoT is the concern over potential new viral outbreaks akin to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a pronounced shift in favor of home care over outpatient services.
Of course, it is still impossible to do surgery at home; however, many examples of medical control, like measuring blood chemistry/pressure and tracking ECG in real time, are now completely feasible with the help of IoT technology and devices (telemetry or telemonitoring solutions.)
Certain activities, like automatic medication injections, can be also performed remotely with the help of IoT-powered implants and pumps, once corresponding sensors provide adequate information for an educated decision.
| System | Description |
|---|---|
| Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) | Monitors patients’ vital signs and health data in real-time, transmitting the information to healthcare providers for ongoing assessment. |
| Telemedicine Platforms | Provides virtual healthcare services, allowing patients to consult with physicians and specialists remotely via video conferencing and digital communication tools. |
| Wearable Health Devices | Includes fitness trackers, smartwatches, and other wearable devices that monitor health metrics such as heart rate, sleep quality, and physical activity. |
| Smart Home Health Systems | Integrates IoT devices within the home to support patient health and wellness, including smart scales, blood pressure monitors, and glucose meters. |
| Emergency Response Systems | Utilizes sensors and wearable technology to detect falls or medical emergencies, automatically alerting healthcare providers or emergency services. |
| Medication Management Systems | Automates the dispensing, tracking, and monitoring of medication intake, ensuring adherence to prescribed treatment plans. |
Learn more: ➡️ Remote ECG-monitoring Software Development: Features, Benefits, and Guidelines
Are there any downsides? One of the major tasks of software engineering in healthcare is to make sure that new samples of medical equipment, including health-monitoring sensors and miniature tools of all kinds, can be used safely and are seamlessly integrated into IoT networks, client-server systems, and cloud solutions including custom Azure engineering services.
Otherwise, the risk of hackers taking advantage of weak links and the whole system will seriously increase…
When it comes to the specifics and difficulties of IoT software configuration, it’s necessary to embrace the fact that advanced custom healthcare software requires a lot of planning and preparation. This process should involve an experienced software engineer who can help you with IoT planning, deployment, and conventional and embedded programming.
| If you’re interested in device-oriented software development for your healthcare practice (including embedded programming or IoT integrations), we are ready to help you with technical consulting, team augmentation, and full-cycle development. Contact TATEEDA GLOBAL experts today! |
Learn more: ➡️ How to Build Custom Medical Device Software: The Complete Guide
What are the Most In-Demand Types of Healthcare Software Solutions for 2024?
There are plenty of prepackaged healthcare software types available, and most of them will get the job done. If you want to make the most of your clinical management system and improve your overall quality of care, a custom solution tailored to your specific needs is the better option.
| A custom-designed, user-friendly, integrated system is easy for staff members to learn and navigate, providing patients with convenient features that improve their overall experience. It also streamlines doctor and staff scheduling while eliminating conflicts and errors that can harm your bottom line. |
Custom Healthcare Solutions
See how we can engineer healthcare software, validate your ideas, and manage project costs for you.
When it’s time to upgrade, custom medical clinic software can be integrated with your existing systems or added as your practice grows. Here are just a few ways medical clinic software can help your practice run more smoothly:
Medical Practice Management Software:
- Efficiently manage patient appointments; quickly schedule and make changes to patient appointments and schedule follow-ups.
- Accelerate the checkout and payment process; send automated appointment notifications by text, email, and phone.
- Dramatically reduce the number of missed appointments and optimize time management for your clinical staff.
Electronic Health Record (EHR) Software:
- Securely store, manage, and retrieve large volumes of patient data.
- Compliance with HIPAA regulations is made easier with custom software that features secure cloud storage and retrieval of patient records.
- Minimize the number of eyes viewing sensitive patient information, and automatically update patient records in real-time.
- Ensure accuracy and minimize costly errors in diagnosis, medications, and treatments.
- Analyze and research medical data with the help of Big Data processing platforms, AI-powered components, and ML algorithms.
Medical Billing Software:
Streamline patient billing and insurance reimbursements. With so many types of medical insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, automated billing software can save countless hours each week, freeing up your clinical staff to focus on patient care and customer satisfaction.
Learn more: ➡️ Health Insurance App Development Guide
Hospital & Clinic Management Software:
- Efficiently manage supplies and reduce waste.
- Keeping track of your inventory of medical supplies, equipment, and medications is key to smooth clinical operations.
- Inventory management software for your clinic helps avoid supply shortages and misplaced inventory that costs money and frustrates both doctors and patients.
- Budget more efficiently with easy-to-access supply-chain management software, including features for automated reordering when medical inventory gets low.
Telemedicine Solutions:
- Optimize remote healthcare: With today’s mobile technology readily available to most patients, TeleHealth services are in ever-greater demand.
- Medical second opinion telemedicine platforms that work as marketplaces connecting multiple patients and doctors helping them obtain additional/alternative or more specified conclusions on disease cases.
- A secure, HIPAA-compliant TeleHealth solution can simplify patient care while improving workflow for doctors and caregivers: How to Develop an Elder Care Mobile App.
- Remote patient services can save you money on clinical overhead, reduce exposure to pathogens, and improve the patient experience by eliminating travel and time spent in waiting rooms.
- Remote healthcare is also an invaluable tool for home caregivers, who need professional support: Virtual Nurse App Development Guide.
| NOTE: ➡️ All of the above-mentioned functions (and many others) can be delivered and combined within one advanced custom healthcare design that becomes the foundation for your integrated product. How does it work? A number of software modules or solutions from different vendors can be seamlessly amalgamated in a singular system, while some unique components, like user interfaces, can be created from scratch. Here are just a few of the custom healthcare product solution types we can help you with: ✔️ e-Prescribing (eRx) Software Development ✔️ Pharmacy Management Software Development ✔️ Hospital Management Software (Medical ERP) Development ✔️ LIMS (Lab Inventory Management System) Development ✔️ Remote Patient-monitoring Solutions ✔️ Embedded System Development and Design ✔️ Medical Data Mining and Analysis Tools ✔️ Medical Imaging (DICOM) Software ✔️ Medical Equipment Software ✔️ Medical CRMs ✔️ And much more… Creating a great healthcare software solution requires experienced engineers to work on architecture. If you’re interested in high-quality healthcare software design and development, contact us at TATEEDA GLOBAL. We offer free consulting! |
How to Execute Healthcare Software Design and Development in 2024
Software development in the healthcare industry has always been a complicated and intricate task that cannot be effectively performed by a non-specialized software engineer or application developer due to inherent risk. The process requires a wide spectrum of specialized knowledge and skills, not to mention conventional software development proficiency and experience.
The strongest reason of all is that any healthcare software solution needs to comply with a wide range of specifications and requirements. Let’s learn more about them…
How to Comply with Healthcare Regulations
One of the key components of healthcare software development is designing software products in a way that aligns perfectly with today’s strict legal and technical requirements. A number of demands must be considered in 2024 (according to the specifics of your project):
- Compliance with HIPAA requirements: The HIPAA Privacy and Privacy Rules, HITECH Act, and other legal regulations.
- Compliance with technical formats and technologies currently accepted in healthcare (for example, HL7, FHIR.)
- Necessary levels of healthcare system technical interoperability and data protection when it comes to cross-platform, client-server, IoT, and cloud computing.
- Compliance with the highest standards of software engineering and development in healthcare, including properly and securely designed software architecture and cybersecurity to avoid potential data breaches and potential middleware issues.
- Remember that certain types of healthcare products, including equipment, require FDA licensing and ISO certifications.
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| Looking to make sure your healthcare project complies with all technical requirements, including HIPAA? ✔️ We can help you develop HIPAA-compliant products and QA services. ✔️ We can augment your existing project with our software developers. ✔️ We can help you upgrade an existing yet outdated medical system. ✔️ We can help you choose the correct IoT and cloud options. Get a free consultation from our experts today! |
How to Reduce Healthcare Software Development & Maintenance Costs
Healthcare software development can be an extremely expensive undertaking…
Estimated cost per project in the United States typically falls anywhere from $100K to unlimited, depending on project scale, complexity, and numerous other factors. Learn more: ➡️ How to Estimate and Manage Custom Software Development Costs.
Usually, healthcare industry’s CTOs try to benefit from nearshore or offshore software development outsourcing, which appears affordable but can be accompanied by significant downsides, including poor code quality and security loopholes. However, there exist alternative means to control and reduce project costs without compromising software quality and security.
For example, you may opt to hire an IoT software development company that uses “offshore” or “nearshore” programming in combination with the benefits of onshore development, but without the excessive cost burden. You can read more about this approach here.
How to Choose a Tech Partner in Healthcare IT
Finding and choosing the right medical software development partner can be a pretty challenging task. Read these recommendations to find and hire an efficient partner for your projects:
- Before approaching a medical tech company, make sure you have a well-elaborated plan for your healthcare software (or at least a developed vision of your future medical solution). Having a ready plan or mature vision of the project will help you save a great deal of time/money when negotiating with your potential IT service providers.
- Deal with reputable companies only. Check out their testimonials and reviews in a wide spectrum of directories and catalogs like Clutch and GoodFirms.
- Consider company websites and their portfolios. Are there similar case studies in health technology, and does their website list any trustworthy customer reviews?
- Where is the company located? Are they HIPAA-compliant? Do they have a real office, or are they more like a fake IT agency hiring developers on gig platforms?
- Arrange a call with their representatives, including development leads. Make sure you’re accompanied by a skilled tech specialist (CTO) who can verify whether or not a potential vendor’s skills and capacities fit your project.
| Do you want to save time in finding a reliable tech partner? We are ready to help. TATEEDA GLOBAL is an onshore software development company (San Diego, CA.) We can manage project costs for you, thanks to our remote dedicated team in Ukraine and other locations. We are great at reducing healthcare software project costs without affecting your deadlines or compromising quality of work. Most of our developers are seniors or strong-middle programmers skilled in up-to-date technologies and frameworks. Interested? ➡️ Get a free consultation from our experts today! |
Custom Medical Software Development at TATEEDA GLOBAL
To remain competitive and attract and retain patients, modern medical practices need to provide exceptional patient care that is convenient and efficient. This requires advanced custom software solutions that are user-friendly for your clinical staff and provide secure, HIPAA-compliant data-management solutions that streamline record-keeping and scheduling. In addition, the demand for remote healthcare options is exploding, and clinics that fail to provide them are bound to lose patients to their competitors.
The medical software development specialists at TATEEDA have the skills and experience necessary to build customized solutions for all of your clinical software needs. Our proven track record of building and maintaining/supporting multiple custom healthcare software solutions means your project will be in the hands of true professionals.
Contact TATEEDA GLOBAL today, and get a custom clinical management system that meets all your requirements…on budget and on time.
