What to Look for While Outsourcing your Custom Healthcare Application Development

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Do they have any prior healthcare success stories?

Requesting for a proven track record of case studies and/or success stories where the vendor has helped healthcare organizations with business ideas similar to yours can help ascertain their experience as well as popularity. With this, you would be sure of how well your business idea will be implemented and can hope to receive a huge range of unique solutions from their end too.

Understand the ins and outs of the healthcare domain
It’s extremely crucial for the prospective partner to have in-depth knowledge of the healthcare industry. This will help you save time and extra effort spent in back-and-forth knowledge transfers. Moreover, the partner would already be well aware of the requirements, resources, and innovative tools that would solely benefit the healthcare organizations and their end-users. Typically, healthcare solutions are used by a variety of users to make very important decisions in a short period. This aspect has a lot of impact on the way the solutions are designed and developed. Usability of the solution, scalability, flexibility and responsiveness are the critical aspects to consider in the solution design.

Are aware of the HIPAA regulation, and every data and compliance-related concerns
The concerned partner needs to be aware of the HIPAA privacy rule to avoid any violations of the rule in the future. Since software with non-HIPAA compliance or any negligence would result in heavy penalties and can severely affect the financial status of both parties.

As any health-related data is termed extremely critical, the outsourcing company needs to be well aware of cautious handling, processing, accessing, and processing of the provided data so that they avert compliance issues in the future. The outsourcing company should also have a well-established security protocol in place to build you a secure healthcare application. Partnering technology company should also be well versed with other security protocols such as GDPR in case you are planning to cater to multiple markets.

Check for sufficient technical expertise and verified reviews
This could be a tough nut to crack, especially to scrutinize if they possess enough technical knowledge or not. One way to be sure of this is to request samples of code, past implementation examples, prototypes, and case studies, and get these reviewed internally. And if they are up to the mark, you would have an ample amount of confidence to go ahead with the contract.

Additionally, you can scrape through their services and look into genuine reviews or feedback of all the past clients they’ve worked with. And if their past clients are from the healthcare domain, then it’s all the more better.

Smooth communication and matching values
The outsourcing partner could be an expert in the healthcare domain, but a lack of proper and on-time communication is a waste of time and money. Your internal team should be in constant sync with the partner’s team with absolutely no communication gaps.

Working with a cooperative external team with whom you are clear on terms can help execute your custom application business idea optimally with no headaches. And matching of core values can also demonstrate whether the organization is reliable or not.

The bottom line

Choosing the right partner to work with to develop healthcare applications can be a daunting task, especially with the many options at our disposal. But, by following the above-tailored checklist, we can assure you about finding an apt application development partner that would help you and your business idea succeed.
At Pratiti Technologies, we provide the right expertise in solution development for the healthcare industry and are currently working with multiple health organizations around the world for their custom application developments.
Contact us today to build efficient and robust customized app developments that are assured to help your organization grow and cater to your users’ needs.