Project background
A telemedicine startup with a big idea to digitalize this sphere: from the healthcare marketplace to healthcare communication platform with real-time video calls between doctors/physicians and their patients, and more.
The pandemic accelerated the process of contactless access to drugs and healthcare apps for patients. Pharma B2C businesses in the countries with an imperfect legislative system concerning sales of medicines received relief and opportunity to reach the customer faster. Namely, they can now offer to shop healthcare marketplace online. Under quarantine and after, many countries allowed distance selling of drugs to the public over the internet.
Our customer is a telemedicine startup willing to change the outdated healthcare sector, digitalize and thus improve the customer experience: from pharm marketplace to real-time video calls between doctors/physicians and their patients and more.
The client’s main idea was to create an automated app for healthcare professionals that has a huge amount of diverse functionality for this sector, for both patients and doctors/physicians. It all started with a healthcare marketplace, and then we added new helpful functionalities: online consultations with doctors/physicians via video chat, a forum with articles on medical topics, a directory of medical institutions, and more.
Technologies
iOS, Android, WebRTC SDC, JavaScript, Java.
Business challenges
- To deploy a new environment on the client’s physical servers. According to GDPR rules in Kazakhstan, they cannot use any cloud solutions, i.e. from Azure, or AWS. Therefore, all data should be stored and processed on physical servers only.
- To create and support a high-load healthcare data platform with a large number of end-users.
- To find a team for custom healthcare app development and sync all platforms of interest: web, desktop, native mobile.