CodeXcelerate
CodeXcelerate
// Healthcare software development
Healthcare software has to clear a higher bar than any other vertical: fast enough for clinical workflows, accurate enough to support patient decisions, and compliant with the regulations that protect health data — HIPAA, HL7, FHIR, DICOM and HITECH. CodeXcelerate has built patient portals, telemedicine platforms, AI health assistants, EHR integrations and appointment automation for healthcare startups and medical practices across the US, UK and Australia. Our senior team combines product engineering expertise with deep familiarity with healthcare data standards and compliance architecture — so the system you get meets regulatory requirements from the architecture layer, not bolted on after.
50+
Healthcare & wellness projects
HIPAA
Compliant architecture
$5K
Starting from
6–10 wks
Typical delivery
// what we build
Secure, mobile-first patient portals that let patients book appointments, access their medical records, message their care team and receive test results — all behind HIPAA-compliant authentication and encrypted data storage. We build with role-based access so clinicians, patients and administrators each see only what they need. Integrates with your existing practice management system or EHR.
End-to-end telemedicine platforms with video consultation, async messaging, digital prescriptions and payment collection — built for both desktop and mobile. We handle the complexity: HIPAA-compliant video infrastructure, waiting rooms, appointment flows, provider scheduling, and patient consent management. Telemedicine platforms typically launch in 10–14 weeks from design to go-live.
Bidirectional integration with Electronic Health Record systems — Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth and custom clinical platforms — using HL7 v2, HL7 FHIR R4 and proprietary APIs. We handle the complexity of mapping your data model to the EHR schema, managing FHIR resource types, and building sync pipelines that handle partial failures, schema drift and high-volume record updates without data loss.
RAG-based AI health assistants trained on your clinical protocols, formulary and FAQs — answering patient questions, triaging symptom descriptions and routing to the right care pathway. Built with medical knowledge guardrails that prevent the AI from providing diagnoses or drug recommendations outside approved protocols, and with clear escalation logic to human clinicians. All responses are logged and auditable.
IoT-connected RPM systems that collect readings from wearables and connected devices — blood pressure, glucose, SpO2, weight, ECG — and surface them in a clinician dashboard with threshold alerting. We build the full stack: device SDK integration, secure data ingestion pipeline, real-time clinician alerts, patient-facing app showing trends, and automated care plan triggers when readings go out of range.
Medical billing workflow apps that automate CPT coding validation, insurance eligibility checks, claim submission and denial management — reducing billing errors and accelerating revenue cycle times. Integration with clearinghouses (Availity, Change Healthcare), payers, and ICD-10/CPT code databases. AI-assisted claim scrubbing that catches common rejection reasons before submission.
HIPAA-compliant mental health platforms for therapists and patients: session scheduling, video therapy, mood tracking, guided CBT exercises, journaling and crisis resources. We've built audio-guided mental performance apps with binaural audio sessions, breathwork and progress gamification. Designed to WCAG accessibility standards and with crisis response flows that meet safe messaging guidelines.
Operational and clinical analytics dashboards that surface actionable insights from your EMR, billing and operational data — appointment no-show patterns, revenue cycle performance, population health metrics, staff utilisation and readmission rates. Built with role-based views for administrators, clinicians and finance — each seeing the data relevant to their decisions, not a one-size-fits-all report.
// compliance & standards
HIPAA / HITECH
All PHI encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3). BAA-eligible infrastructure. Audit logging for every PHI access. Minimum necessary access enforced at the query layer.
HL7 FHIR R4
FHIR R4-compliant resource models for Patient, Encounter, Observation, Condition, MedicationRequest and DiagnosticReport. SMART on FHIR for OAuth 2.0 authorisation.
HL7 v2 / EDI
Legacy HL7 v2 message parsing for ADT, ORU, ORM and DFT message types — required for integration with older EHR systems that haven't migrated to FHIR.
DICOM
DICOM file handling for medical imaging workflows — ingestion, storage, viewer integration and metadata extraction for radiology and pathology use cases.
SOC 2 Type II
Architecture and access controls designed to support SOC 2 Type II certification for your organisation — logical access controls, change management, availability monitoring and incident response procedures.
// how we work
01
We map your clinical workflows, user roles and data flows before writing any code. We identify compliance requirements specific to your use case — HIPAA, HL7, DICOM — and map the technical risks that clinical software specifically faces: PHI access patterns, third-party integrations with EHR systems, and failure scenarios that could affect patient safety.
02
We design the data architecture with compliance as a first-class constraint — encryption at rest and in transit, PHI minimisation, access control models, audit logging and retention policies — before a line of application code is written. Retrofitting compliance is expensive and error-prone; we build it in from the start.
03
Healthcare UX has to work for users under time pressure — clinicians seeing 20 patients a day, patients filling forms on their phone in a waiting room. We design and prototype every screen, then test usability with representative users before development. Clinical workflow efficiency and patient-facing clarity are both primary design objectives.
04
Development runs in two-week sprints with a working demo every Friday. You see real software — a testable build on your phone, a live web feature — not status reports. We use the demo to validate clinical workflow assumptions before they become entrenched in the codebase, which prevents expensive late-stage rework.
05
Healthcare software requires a higher QA bar: we run functional testing, integration testing for EHR connections, performance testing under realistic load, and a security review covering OWASP Top 10 and healthcare-specific attack vectors (PHI exfiltration, session hijacking, API enumeration). We provide a test report alongside the production build.
06
Production deployment on BAA-eligible AWS or GCP infrastructure — VPC isolation, encrypted storage, CloudTrail audit logging, automated backups and disaster recovery configuration. 30-day post-launch monitoring with SLA on critical bug response. Ongoing support retainers available for regulated healthcare systems that require ongoing security updates and compliance maintenance.
// the complexity
Patient data requires HIPAA encryption, audit logging and BAA-eligible infrastructure — one breach permanently damages trust
HL7/FHIR EHR integration is notoriously complex — real EHR APIs have undocumented behaviours, rate limits and schema variants
Clinical workflows are time-critical — slow or confusing software costs clinician time and patient experience
Patients have high UX expectations from consumer apps and low tolerance for friction in healthcare interfaces
SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance requirements add architecture constraints that most general-purpose web agencies don't understand
// tech stack
// transparent pricing
India-based senior engineers — typically 60–70% less than a comparable US or UK agency for equivalent experience.
| What You're Building | Investment Range | Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Patient portal (booking + records + messaging) | $5,000 – $15,000 | 6–10 weeks |
| Telemedicine platform (video + scheduling + payments) | $12,000 – $30,000 | 10–16 weeks |
| EHR integration (FHIR R4 bidirectional sync) | $4,000 – $12,000 | 4–7 weeks |
| AI health assistant (RAG on your protocols) | $4,000 – $10,000 | 4–8 weeks |
| RPM system (IoT + clinician dashboard + alerts) | $10,000 – $25,000 | 8–14 weeks |
| Full healthcare platform (portal + telemedicine + EHR) | $20,000 – $60,000+ | 16–28 weeks |
Ranges are guidance based on typical scope. A free technical call gives you a precise fixed-price quote for your specific requirements.
// outcomes
// faq
Healthcare app development with CodeXcelerate costs from $5,000 for a focused patient portal up to $60,000+ for a full telemedicine + EHR-integrated platform. A basic patient portal with appointment booking and secure messaging starts at $5,000–$15,000. A telemedicine platform with video consultation, scheduling and payments runs $12,000–$30,000. A full platform combining portal, telemedicine and EHR integration costs $20,000–$60,000+. At our India-based rates, you typically pay 60–70% less than a comparable US or UK healthcare software agency — making HIPAA-compliant product development accessible for early-stage healthcare startups.
// let's build
Free 30-minute technical call. We map your requirements, give you a realistic scope and cost, and tell you honestly if we're the right fit.
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