MVP for an App Enabling Health Data Tracking Delivered in 7 Months
7
Months to the MVP
After which the client could start pitching the product.
40+
Years of medical experience
Behind the two doctors who conceived it.
5
People on the team
Two Python developers and a frontend developer, alongside a QA specialist and a project manager.
The client
Two doctors with more than forty years of practice between them had an idea for an application that would make communication between patients and their doctors less laborious.
One of the founders wrote the first version himself: patients fill in their medical data through smart questionnaires on a phone. They wanted to take it further, to a broader audience.
The challengeWhat the teams actually needed
The founders needed the product expanded quickly enough to take to investors, and working in more than one language from the start.
Challenge 01Control for the patient, less work for the doctor
Patients were to gain more say over what they share while doctors’ workloads went down, which are usually opposing forces.
Challenge 02An MVP soon enough to matter
The product had to reach MVP fast enough that the founders could go looking for investment and take the project to its next stage.
Challenge 03Several languages, several regions
The product had to be available in multiple languages across many regions rather than launched in one and translated later.
What we did
Questionnaires that become something a department can read
Work started in January 2018 with requirements settled first, then a CSS library for the platform, then the features themselves.
New fields in the tables
The questionnaire modal was updated with additional fields in its tables, which is where the clinical detail lives.
Answers into one PDF
Responses convert into a single PDF the patient can send to a health department chosen from a list.
Signed on the page
A signature pad inside one of the questions lets the patient sign at the foot of the page rather than printing anything.
Two kinds of translation
One set of translations covers values held in the database, another covers templates and the messages shown as validation — which is what makes multiple regions possible.
Client testimonial
We’re really happy with the team. They just do what a client expects: they respond quickly and accurately, are passionate about what they do, really demonstrating professionalism and expertise. They are pleasant to work with and have a really dedicated team.
Tech stackThe tools that made it possible
01
Python
The backend of the platform.
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