Medical Software Development Solutions: Custom healthcare software development

Healthcare software development has experienced an explosion of activity due to advances in medical treatments, evolving consumer preferences toward self-directed management of health, new remote healthcare services, and the rapid development of digital medical devices and technologies.

Healthcare software includes a wide range of medical software development services, custom software development, and medical device software integrations. Stakeholders in all areas of the healthcare delivery system can take advantage of healthcare software development to achieve goals focused on improving medical outcomes and operational, financial, wellness, and service delivery. Even in the complex landscape of healthcare software, Geneca knows how to design and build solutions that deliver an integrated application and user experience–a critical factor of success.

What Is Healthcare Software Development?

Healthcare software development is the process of designing, building, testing, launching, and maintaining applications created to benefit organizations and patients in the healthcare field. At Geneca, our team of analysts and healthcare software developers have the skills and experience to help you design and build the custom medical software you need to help your organization grow. We can also help with customized websites for healthcare

Why Should You Build and Use Healthcare Software?

Building custom medical software is no small task. Is it worth it for your company? Health organizations, patients, and everyone in between can benefit from partnering with custom healthcare software development companies. Take a look at how it may benefit you:

Benefits for Health Insurance Companies

MEDICAL SOFTWARE TO HELP YOU MANAGE THE COST OF CARE, IMPROVE OPERATIONS, AND INCREASE REVENUE

Applications for health insurance companies can help users manage the cost of care and generate new revenue sources. The world of health insurance is complex, and it relies on both consumers and healthcare providers to function. Health insurance companies are recognizing the need to align their solutions with the shifts in consumers’ priorities, their willingness to share data with healthcare providers, and their desire to manage their own health.

The industry is creating digital solutions that incentivize consumers to adopt and maintain healthy habits, which can result in new sources of revenue and reduced claim costs. Artificial intelligence algorithms are being integrated into claim pre-authorization applications to assist in evaluating treatment options as clinically appropriate, and machine learning software applications are helping insurers understand their markets and reduce costs to service their products.

Want to learn how we’ve helped clients automate the pre-authorization process, saving them time and money in their everyday operations? Read more in our case study.

Benefits for Health Organizations

PROTECT DATA, SIMPLIFY CLAIMS PROCESSES, IMPROVE DOCUMENTATION, AND REDUCE COSTS

Health organizations can benefit from custom medical software development in various ways, such as:

Data Protection

All organizations in the healthcare sector are required to adhere to strict guidelines when it comes to patient protection. As a result, data protection is a top priority. Medical software applications can make storing, sharing, and accessing data for patients and providers easier and safer.

Claim Simplification

Any health organization that offers complex medical services could benefit from a machine learning application. These types of applications give providers the ability to confirm clinical appropriateness of treatment plans before ordering them. As a result, the claim, payment, and pre-authorization processes are simplified.

Improved Documentation

Medical providers can improve coding and billing processes with technology that encourages legible, complete documentation. By ensuring necessary data is always entered and establishing an automated workflow, healthcare organizations can reduce errors and streamline business processes.

Reduced Costs

With less paperwork, improved safety, reduced testing and analysis, and streamlined workflows, healthcare organizations can reduce costs and save time for their providers.

Benefits For Clinical Specialists

COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR PATIENTS AND THEIR PROVIDERS, ACCESS PATIENT DATA, AND ANALYZE PATIENT SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT PLANS, SCANS, AND LAB RESULTS.

Medical software development is often used to create applications for clinicians. Custom healthcare software can offer many benefits for clinicians, such as:

Remote Patient Monitoring

Portals can provide visibility and analysis of data from patients’ digital medications and devices. With the help of medical software, clinicians can monitor and provide care for their patients, even when they aren’t physically present. Issues can be escalated before they become serious, and clinicians can monitor patient progress during treatments.

Time and Appointment Management

Medical software can’t add more time to the day, but it can help users maximize the time they do have. With custom software solutions, medical practices can take advantage of integrated appointment management. Users can take the guesswork out of scheduling and ensure they never double-book an appointment slot by using technology to do the heavy lifting for them. With the right software, your patients can even book their own appointments, either online or on a local device in a clinician’s office.

Improved Documentation

Medical providers can improve coding and billing processes with technology that encourages legible, complete documentation. By ensuring necessary data is always entered and establishing an automated workflow, healthcare organizations can reduce errors and streamline business processes.

Data Analysis

Healthcare relies on data. Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications can perform data analysis and analyze test results. Custom healthcare software can also use predictive algorithms to analyze patients’ medical history and identify who has a likelihood of developing a particular disease.

A Frost and Sullivan reported on the top 4 key technologies to impact the healthcare industry in 2019:

Big data analytics

Artificial intelligence

mHealth (mobile health)

Wearables

Benefits For Digital Medical Technology and Digital Pharmaceutical Companies

INTEGRATE AND LEVERAGE THE UNIQUE CAPABILITIES OF YOUR SOLUTION TO IMPROVE PATIENT WELLNESS AND PARTICIPATION
Updates in robotics development, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, 3-D printing, and IoT (Internet of Things) are driving countless new innovations in the healthcare industry. For example, digital medicine solutions can help patients adhere to their medicine schedules. Such technology can include virtual observer therapy, smart pill bottles and organizers, bio-ingestible sensors, patient reward platforms, and home assistants. All of these solutions use one or more custom medical software applications.

Additionally, pharmaceutical companies are evaluating the use of wearable medical devices and smartphone applications in their clinical trials to improve patient participation, reduce the trial costs, and improve the results of their clinical trials. As a result, new medical software applications are being developed for the healthcare sector.

Benefits Of Custom Healthcare Software Development For Patients

IMPROVED ACCESS TO YOUR MEDICAL HEALTH INFORMATION, MORE IMMEDIATE AND COST-EFFECTIVE HEALTHCARE SERVICES, AND NEW WAYS TO MANAGE SPECIFIC HEALTH CONDITIONS
Medical software applications enable consumers to have more power over their health and wellness. They are able to access their medical history, make informed health choices, manage their health conditions, share electronic health records, and receive care from a clinician.

Applications can also make the lives of patients’ easier by allowing them to schedule their own custom appointments, receive reminders, and refill prescriptions, all from the comfort of their own computer or phone.

In the Accenture 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health, it was reported that 75% of US consumers surveyed said technology is important is managing their health. Patients are increasingly open to using technology for medical consultations and monitoring. They are more open to using an artificially intelligent virtual doctor and are increasingly more comfortable with robot-assisted surgery. (cited in this article:  https://www.accenture.com/acnmedia/PDF-94/Accenture-2019-Digital-Health-Consumer-Survey.pdf)

The Healthcare Development Services we Provide

Custom healthcare solutions come in many shapes and sizes. Like all software, it’s created to reduce errors, improve efficiency, and ultimately make operations easier for users. To be able to do that well, different types of healthcare software exist to satisfy the different needs of the healthcare industry.

Practice Management System

A medical practice management system is used to manage day-to-day operations of a clinic or other healthcare organization, increasing efficiency and improving patient care and satisfaction. This type of healthcare software can take care of appointment scheduling, billing, patient management, and other administrative tasks in one streamlined application. Practice management system software can be used by practices of any size, and it typically only requires an internet connection and a simple computer network, making it easy to adopt into an office.

EMR

Electronic medical records (EMRs) are exactly what they sound like: digital versions of paper documentation from clinician offices, clinics, and hospitals. This documentation includes patient charts, noes from appointments, and more. This information is typically used to diagnosis and prescribe treatment to patients.

Why are EMRs more beneficial than paper records? By digitizing information, providers can track data over time, identify trends, monitor patients, and more.

With healthcare software development services, EMRs can be introduced to any practice without sacrificing data protection or process efficiency. In fact, EMRs can improve both of those areas.

EHR

Electronic health records (EHRs), unlike EMRs, extend past a singular provider’s office and are shared with a broader range of a patient’s care network. Rather than just a primary care physician having access to a patient’s information with EMRs, a patient’s entire care network can have access to their EHRs, including specialists, their hospital, a nursing home, etc.

Not only does this allow a patient to easily connect their care providers and monitor and manage their own care, but it also allows their providers to communicate efficiently and attain a more complete view of the patient’s current health status.

Patient Portals and Mobile Apps

Patient portals allow healthcare clients to take control of their care. Patient portals can be accessed online via a computer or mobile device, or some patient portals are made to be accessed with mobile apps. Either way, patients can use the portals to schedule appointments, access their medical records, contact their care providers, request prescription refills, pay bills, and more.

Geneca has proven experience in creating custom medical software applications.

We deliver services in all the stages of product development.

We’ve worked with and continue to partner with stakeholders across the diverse healthcare application services field, lending us the experience needed to complete projects successfully and efficiently.

How We Handle Custom Healthcare Software Development

At Geneca, we develop our healthcare projects based on the software development life cycle: plan, design, develop, test, launch, and maintain. Our team of analysts and developers will keep you involved every step of the way, so you never have to wonder how your project is doing or how your money is being spent.

Planning

Many innovations fail because they aren’t able to pinpoint the problem they’re trying to solve. That’s why Geneca starts every project by identifying the main issue and defining goals. For custom medical software, planning is essential to ensure stakeholders and their differing but overlapping points of view are taken into consideration.

DESIGN

Many innovations fail because they lack the definition and research required to really pinpoint the problem to be solved.  Who has the problem, why should it be solved, why now – there are many important questions to consider when framing up a new product and making the decision to move forward on a software project.  In the case of custom medical software, this is particularly important due to the many stakeholders and their differing but overlapping points of view in the health care services model. Geneca understands this and knows how to design stakeholder research or a rapid design session to enable you to determine what the next step should be in your product development path.

DEVELOPMENT

When it comes to delivering a medical software project, we know that our culture of commitment coupled with the use of Agile methodology ensures that work gets done on time and on budget. Our broad technology depth combined with our experience in working with multiple companies to build complex integrations makes us particularly well suited for medical software development.

Testing

As we work through the software development life cycle, we are constantly testing the code we’re building. By doing so, our analysts and developers are able to catch bugs and streamline processes long before the product ever touches the hands of users.

Launch

We’ve found that one of the keys to a successful medical product launch is to deliver a set of simulations designed to uncover data communication or operational gaps. Read our Custom Software Solutions for Digital Medicine Case Study to learn more.

SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE

This is a pivotal time in the world of medical software and health care solutions. Problems we are solving today will continue to evolve as consumer preferences continue to shift, advances in medicine and technology continue to develop and all types of medical data become services to be shared. Geneca, as your medical software development company, understands that technology innovators need to measure the results and incorporate feedback that enables them to focus their strategy to adapt to change.

And the best part is

You’re only limited by your imagination.

Tell us your ideas and we’ll build it – desktop apps, mobile apps, IoT apps, cloud solutions and more.

Custom Healthcare Software Development faqs

What does a medical software developer do?
A medical software developer performs the same tasks as any developer; they use programming languages and technology stacks to build effective, user-friendly software. However, developers in the medical field are focused on creating ways to perform medical treatments, provide patient care, manage healthcare clinics, and more. They must have a thorough understanding of healthcare and how software can better the industry.
Which software is best for healthcare?
There is no right answer to which software is best for healthcare. The software system that is right for your organization or business may be different than what’s best for another. Your needs and goals are different than your competitors’, so why shouldn’t your software also be? The best way to determine what software is right for you is to partner with a software consulting company who can help you make the best decisions for your organization.
Why is medical software important?
Medical software makes it possible for healthcare professionals to:

  •       Make more informed, faster decisions
  •       Provide increased quality of care for patients
  •       Manage appointments efficiently
  •       Easily access patient documentation

Ultimately, healthcare software makes it possible to continually improve the care that patients receive every day, and it allows healthcare professionals to focus less on repetitive day-to-day tasks so they can focus on the people they’re serving.

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