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Enhancing the Abilities of Healthcare SectorHealth Software product development is the process of designing and developing a software application for the healthcare industry. Starting from conception, the entire process of building a software product could take months or even more than a year. Later on, the application needs to be tested to see if all its functions work as desired and to check if any bugs might pose security problems. In the case of customized healthcare software, it is safe to say that product development solutions end when the product has been implemented at the client’s organization.
OSP’s custom healthcare software product engineering solutions help healthcare businesses to launch custom software products faster and modernize existing healthcare software solutions, with advanced system integration solutions. Our experienced software product developers skillfully migrate software products to cloud-based SaaS models, MVP development, and efficient legacy application migration.
OSP has a team of experienced subject-matter experts and industry consultants to help you align your product design strategy with your business goals. Our product engineers use hands-on-approach to map your business goals into technology eco-systems advancements and define the roadmap and transition strategy for custom software product development. We follow the agile methodology for product designing, software development, UX, performance engineering, product testing, and finally the product deployment.
At OSP,we continuously strive to meet the challenges of the fierce competitive landscape, the dynamic nature of the healthcare domain, and unique client needs. Our healthcare software product engineering solutions provide diverse functional and non-functional elements of the product like access, security, performance, integrations, availability, scalability, deployment, and delivery.
OSP helps clients gain a better competitive advantage with superior software product compliance services. Our software product compliance services ensure that the existing or new medical software solutions duly comply with the essential global requirements for data security, client’s unique needs, and environmental specifications for information technology equipment (ITE).
We divide our healthcare software product compliance services into three distinct parts, early stage qualification, testing, certification. We offer a common framework and an integrated approach to meet cross-industry regulations, such as OSHA, FCPA, EH&S, and ISO standards. Our expert and experienced software product engineers work to enable compliance with industry-focused regulatory guidelines from HIPAA, HL7, FAA, HACCP, OMB A-123, AML, Basel II, and necessary Data Retention laws.
Our team of expert product engineers and testers assist you with each phase of the healthcare software product development, without compromising on integrity. Our product compliance solutions assist businesses to comply with governmental requirements (HIPAA, HL7, etc.), client requests, supply chain transparency, internal efficiency and cost reduction.
OSP provides complete turnkey embedded healthcare product systems and firmware applications for turning your ideas into reality. Our team of expert product engineers leverages IoT hardware protocols, including the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) and MQTT.
Embedded product engineer specialists at OSP focus on producing a premium-grade and high performance embedded computing applications. To carry out embedded software integration, we use embedded operating systems, such as Linux, RTOS: FreeRtos, OpenEmbedded/Yocto, and NuttX. While creating software platforms for embedded systems, our expert product engineers develop multiple hardware and network communication protocols, such as MIPI DSI/CSI, USART/UART, I2C, Ethernet, SPI, and LVDS.
The customized device driver designs, multi-threaded applications, and rapid prototyping are the trademark features of OSP embedded system engineering. We understand the vitality of embedded systems in healthcare and adopt innovative methods to offer efficient, reliable and highly-scalable embedded systems.
The obsolete legacy systems drain any organizations with rising costs, lack of flexibility and non-supportive systems. OSP’s healthcare software solutions development team offers bespoke legacy system modernization to reduce processing time, counter the mobility challenges, and implement the BI into the existing systems.
Our legacy systems modernization is operated in the following areas:
Application Modernization
We strive to improve system agility and reduce complexity with automated application modernization services.Our inside-out approach helps to create medical software solutions with an equivalent functionality by leveraging multiple legacy assets.
Cloud Migration
We are proficient in migrating legacy application to the cloud with our state-of-the-art cloud migration solutions. Our experts help businesses to map out their cloud journey with industry-relevant insights and top-notch cloud migration services to achieve maximum benefits of the cloud.
Data Modernization
Our software product engineers help to unlock data in existing legacy systems with advanced data architectures. Our cutting-edge data modernization services protect your sensitive healthcare data, while utilizing it to gain real-time insights and decision-making.
To overcome the complexity of IT ecosystem, enhance data consistency and promote collaboration among multiple platforms, our legacy systems modernization plays a crucial role. Our intelligent software product engineering team strives to transform the existing software system into web-based client systems.
Our product integration solutions connect the various software applications and IT systems, both physically and functionally to operate as a coordinated, unified system. The IT ecosystem is highly fragmented into a broad spectrum of SaaS, mobile health apps, cloud, and services. To ensure seamless connectivity through the entire healthcare software product system, our seamless product integration solutions connect databases and on-premises systems.
Our expert software product engineers analyze your unique requirements to identify incompatibilities of various systems. We formulate viable product integration strategies to integrate multiple systems into a converged software infrastructure. Our team of intelligent product engineers designs a centralized and integrated product architecture, while ensuring real-time data integrity and scalability.
Our network system integration solutions strive to skillfully configure customized network servers, data management solutions and security. Our product integration solutions incorporate state-of-the-art technologies to enhance healthcare software solutions system performance, better productivity, and greater security.
OSP’s Healthcare Software Product Development services are all about building a lean and robust product that brings your core ideation into the brilliant reality. The Minimum Viable Feature (MVP) incorporates the minimum set of features, which are sufficient to build your healthcare software product and meet the productivity goals. Our team of professional MVP developers help clients to create bare minimum software product components and functionalities, with a quicker development cycle.
Our MVP product development services also include web and mobile MVP product engineering. In our MVP services offerings, we provide,
Prototype design/ POC demo development
Testing the feasibility of your ideas with proofs-of-concept (POC) is an ideal way to contemplate the potential impact of your new engineered product. Our POC demo development solutions help clients to achieve maximum results with minimum resources involved.
Single feature MVP
To test your highly critical ideas with single-feature MVP development solutions. We deliver functional single-feature and customized MVP software products that are geared to make tactical decisions in future.
Pilot MVP development
We provide pilot MVP product solutions to quickly engineer usable MVP version for the identified pilot customers or test audiences. We focus on the speed and accuracy to execute pilot MVP development in time.
Our end-to-end software product verification and validation solutions ensure error-free products at its first launch. The product verification process centers on ensuring that the made product is in line with product strategy and design specifications. The next phase, product validation confirms that whether the engineered software product is meeting the needs of the end-user.
With shifting focus from quality to integrity, OSP’s product verification and validation team help clients to launch advanced software products with superior flexibility and agility. We apply advanced product testing techniques to offer a comprehensive assessment of the products quality, reliability, and performance. We provide,
Our experienced product engineers define verification and validation with a customer-centric outlook. Our outcome-based engagement approach is focused on satisfying the unique user and business needs and to deliver error-free products that meet the quality standards of the healthcare industry.
We engineer advanced and innovative SaaS products with cloud-native practices, distributed architecture, remarkable UI/UX and brilliant applications. OSP’s professional SaaS product developers leverage latest framework and tools to accelerate end-to-end SaaS products.
Our experienced SaaS product engineers leverage cloud architecture, DevOps, containers and SaaS services to build automated and scalable SaaS products. Our advanced SaaS products are built with multi-tenancy and well-distributed architectures to serve the global clientele efficiently. We are experts in designing API interfaces and libraries and integrations to meet the growing demand for system integrations and data portability. Our cutting-edge UX design and engineering involve rapid prototyping, user testing and metrics strategy and UX.
OSP’s software product engineering team builds bespoke SaaS products with a lean and agile mindset. Our expertise in SaaS product development incorporates the entire scale of architectural and functional building blocks essential to develop quality SaaS products and innovate at scale.
Building tailored healthcare software applications is one of the most prominent aspects of health software product development. Assessing client requirements, designing a framework, writing the code, and adding the features for customized software have grown to become a major global industry. OSP has spent the better decade developing software solutions for the healthcare industry to solve the challenges of providers, patients, payers and medical billing companies.
The rapid adoption of technology in the healthcare industry has opened up new avenues for serving all the stakeholders involved. OSP can build healthcare software solutions to cover the whole spectrum of services – from scheduling appointments to managing hospitals and clinics and even handling billing and claims. Furthermore, we have also developed solutions to manage pharmacies and pathology laboratories, in addition to software for telehealth and payment processing.
This is the biggest advantage of software product development for every industry and business. Customized software digitizes workflows and speeds up all the day-to-day operations as physical documents and files are replaced with digital ones. Manual work is replaced by process workflow automation and quicker operations. OSP has built numerous applications for clients in the healthcare industry and empowered them to optimize their operations and generate higher revenues.
We’ve reached out and found companies like OSP to create our technology. This is my first time working with a company that has been so thorough. These guys are amazing. If you really are looking for someone for a technology solution, these guys are the real deal.
-- Stephen Carter
We reached out to OSP to provide an estimate on a technology solution we were interested in developing. From the initial conversation, the team was professional, courteous, and thorough. We were able to make a quick decision to move forward with OSP because we were confident that our requirements were accurately captured and the development deliverables and associated costs were clear.
The OSP development team stayed on schedule and within budget throughout the build phase and provided weekly communications to keep our team informed along the way. If we require application development in the future, OSP will be the first call we make.
-- Selita Jansen
We have worked closely with OSP for two years, meeting twice a week to work through development requirements, strategy, design, progress, and support. OSP has become an integral part of our business, and our mutual teams work together as one team. OSP tackles problems that arise with integrity and operate with respect for budgeting.
-- Charlie Langdon
Yes, I would certainly recommend their services because they were diligent and the offered price was very reasonable which is a challenge these days to get a great product at excellent pricing.
-- Bert Lurch
We built a tailored RPM solution with telehealth features.
We built a platform to connect home care agencies with experienced clinicians and provide house calls.
We developed a website for efficient senior care and which connects doctors, patients, and families of patients.
We built a custom medical billing, credentialing, practice management suite.
OSP developed a web-based application to streamline the process of diagnosing diabetic retinopathy.
We built a technology solution to address the shortage of Maternal Fetal Medicine experts.
Healthcare software product development is the process of developing software for the healthcare industry. This includes software for clinical and administrative purposes, not to mention payer operations.
Medical software development is the process of building software applications for healthcare. It includes applications for providers for medical activities, front-office staff for administrative and financial tasks, or even patients to interact with their doctors.
New to the Company
As the name indicates, this is a completely new product that is not present in the company’s existing portfolio.
Improvement of Existing Product
This type of development involves broadening the scope and functionality of existing products to match newer market trends.
Extension of Product Line
This type of development adds to an already existing range of related products. It is usually done to address a growing need in the market.
New to the Market
A New-to-the-Market product is something that no other company in the industry is offering. This type of product development usually involves risk and extensive market research and advertising.
Data security
As workflows become increasingly digitized, ensuring the security and privacy of sensitive data is a major concern for software companies.
Budgetary Issues
Newer technologies might be too expensive for many medical organizations to adopt.
Insufficient Data
Data siloes and gaps are major concerns in healthcare. Newer systems need to be compatible with existing ones, or it may lead to data aggregation issues which will pose hurdles in clinical activities.
Resistance to Change
Many individual providers and larger hospitals would have well-established workflows and be resistant to change. This is because the change might require investment in new technologies and the establishment of new workflows.
Planning
As the name indicates, the development will plan their activities to finish the project within the deadlines.
Requirements Analysis
This involves identifying everything that might be needed as well as market research to know what features to include
Design
This is when developers outline the details of the software with specifics like UI/UX, databases, network requirements, and so on.
Development
As the name indicates, this is when the development team begins to code their designs and build the software.
Testing
This phase involves testing the software against established criteria to ensure it functions as intended.
Implementation
As the name suggests, the company that develops the software will implement it on the client’s systems
Maintenance
The software, once installed, needs to be maintained. This is done by offering timely support to clients in case of technical problems.
Scalability
Software must be able to accommodate any necessary changes in its capacity or functionality.
Compliance
Newer technologies and trends result in evolving regulations. Complying with them can be challenging for medical software development companies.
Confidentiality
Ensuring the confidentiality of sensitive data is a growing challenge for healthcare software development.
Data Integration
Integration of data garnered from multiple sources for an aggregated view is difficult. They will have different formats and standards.
Platform Agnosticism
There was a time when a desktop computer was the only device. There are multiple devices today, and developing software for all of them makes the process more complicated.
The main reason for problems with interoperability is the varying data formats and standards. These tend to be different for different software platforms since they are made using different programming languages. Healthcare software product development companies must first establish common standards to enable seamless data exchange. Subsequently, common best practices for the industry will further help break down the interoperability barriers.
Reputation and track record of the company
It is important to determine how long the company has been in business. Additionally, the reviews of its products, both good and bad, also go a long way in indicating its competitiveness.
Cost of the software
The initial cost of obtaining the software is an important consideration. Smaller cash-strapped medical organizations may be unable to afford the latest technology solutions.
Time is taken for delivery and implementation.
Companies with a good track record with their products but taking too long to develop and implement their software might pose problems for hospitals and clinics.
Training provided to staff at the medical center
The company that develops and implements the software needs to train the staff at the hospital or clinic in using it. Without adequate training, the workflows will be adversely affected as the staff will need more time to get used to the new system.
Support during downtimes
This is another important factor in deciding whether a company buys medical software. Every software needs to have rapid support during downtimes caused by technical glitches. The absence of such support will hinder operations in case of problems.
Big data
Storing and processing large quantities of medical data garnered from a growing number of devices is the next big thing for the industry.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
AI and ML are set to disrupt every industry on earth. They have huge applications in healthcare, from clinical decision support to predictive analytics.
Internet of things
IoT-based devices can internetwork and exchange data. This has powered a new wearable device that collects patients’ vital signs in real time and shares them with providers.
Virtual reality
VR has demonstrated enormous potential in training medical students to respond to various situations and make decisions faster.
Robot-assisted surgery
Surgical robots can allow a surgeon remotely to perform delicate surgery on a patient without being in the operating room.
Cloud technologies
Cloud computing allows data and applications to be hosted remotely, eliminating the need for organizations to invest in on-premises hardware.
