Exploring Low-Code, Outsourcing for Healthcare App Development

Healthcare app development is a critical IT infrastructure step, but choosing how to handle the development process depends on how many apps will be developed, what they will be used for, and what IT staff can handle in-house. Healthcare applications need to be developed with privacy, security, and compliance in mind, as well as clearly outlined objectives. This calls for developers that have experience in healthcare app development or the use of tools with healthcare-compliant application programming interfaces (APIs). “An idea that’s changed lately is the idea that large healthcare enterprises have their own development shops,” CareCloud CTO Josh Siegel tol HITInfrastructure.com. Organizations don’t have to rely on software vendors to produce applications; they can employ their own developers and data scientists to create tools. These developers have access to the data that is collected by EHRs, research, pharmacy data, and other sources to build software on top of.