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Boston healthcare apps for research hospitals and digital health teams.

Codeeo takes on healthcare app development Boston academic medical centers, Cambridge digital health startups and regional care networks need for patients who rarely live next door to their specialist. We build patient apps, telehealth follow up, remote monitoring and research tools such as electronic consent and patient reported outcomes, connected to your EHR through FHIR and designed around HIPAA, FDA software rules and the Massachusetts data security regulation.

Boston care runs on referrals from across New England, on research protocols that sit beside routine treatment, and on clinicians who split time between wards, labs and startups. Software for that setting has to keep research data and care data apart, and it has to work for a patient in Maine as well as one in Dorchester. It also has to be usable by clinicians between rounds, on a phone, in a few taps.

Built for
Academic medical centers, hospital research groups, Cambridge and Seaport digital health companies, and New England care networks based in Boston.
Typical timeline
Set during discovery after your IRB, privacy and integration requirements are clear, and written into the project plan before design begins.
What you own
The code, cloud and app store accounts, study and patient data, and all integration settings, kept in accounts your organization controls.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer

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Ghezlan

Capabilities

What Boston health systems and startups ask us to build.

Boston organizations tend to combine three things in one product: routine patient services, research participation and a commercial roadmap. A hospital may want a follow up app that also enrolls patients in a registry. A Kendall Square startup may run a pilot inside a teaching hospital before selling nationally. Each of those combinations raises different questions about consent, data ownership and FDA scope.

Massachusetts adds its own layer. The data security regulation at 201 CMR 17.00 expects a written information security program, oversight of service providers and encryption of personal information sent over public networks. State law requires every party to consent before a conversation is recorded. Physicians treating patients located in the state need a Massachusetts license from the Board of Registration in Medicine. We design for these rules alongside HIPAA, not after them.

We also plan for how Boston patients move: on the T, through hospital campuses with weak indoor signal, and between home states. Screens load quickly on slow connections and forms save progress so a patient can finish check in after leaving a subway platform.

Explain your project
  • Electronic consent for studies

    Study consent screens built from your IRB approved documents, with comprehension checks, version control when the protocol changes and signature records that follow FDA expectations for electronic records where a trial falls under them. Research consent stays separate from treatment consent so withdrawing from a study never affects care.

    Participants enroll remotely and every signature has a clear version history.

  • Patient reported outcomes

    Scheduled questionnaires and symptom diaries that follow the timing in your protocol, with reminders, missed entry tracking and exports your biostatisticians can load directly. Validated instruments are reproduced exactly as licensed, with no wording changes made for convenience.

    Study coordinators chase fewer missing entries.

  • Specialist follow up across New England

    Patients often travel into Boston from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont or Rhode Island for specialist care. The app records where the patient is at each video visit and checks it against the clinician's licenses, so follow ups happen by video only where the law allows and in person everywhere else.

    Fewer long drives for visits that can legally happen by video.

  • Telehealth with recording controls

    Because Massachusetts requires consent from all parties to record, recording is off by default and starts only after every participant agrees on screen, with that agreement stored next to the visit. Interpreter joins and family members are covered by the same rule.

    No visit is recorded without consent on file.

  • Remote monitoring after discharge

    Connected scales, blood pressure cuffs and pulse oximeters paired at discharge, with readings routed to the right care team and thresholds that your clinicians set and review. Data from cellular devices keeps flowing during winter storms when patients cannot travel. Device returns are tracked when monitoring ends.

    Care teams see home readings without extra phone calls.

  • Student and trainee friendly scheduling

    Boston has a large population of college and graduate students who move in and out with the academic year and often keep a home address in another state. Scheduling captures a current local address, current insurance and a temporary contact, and reminds returning patients to update details at the start of each semester.

    Fewer visits booked against outdated addresses or coverage.

  • EHR launch and data exchange

    SMART on FHIR apps that open inside the EHR your clinicians already use, plus FHIR reads and writes for results, medications and appointments. Where you exchange records with community providers through Mass HIway or another network, we plan how app data fits that exchange.

    Clinicians work from one record, not two.

  • Multilingual patient content

    Boston patients speak Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Chinese and Vietnamese, among other languages. We plan translated content, interpreter requests and right sized reading levels from the start, and we test with native speakers instead of relying on machine translation for clinical instructions.

    Instructions patients can actually follow in their own language.

  • Pilot ready startup builds

    For companies piloting inside a hospital, we build to pass the hospital security review first: documented architecture, access logging, single sign on for staff and a clean data processing description. Commercial features stay behind flags until the pilot terms allow them.

    Security review becomes a checklist, not a stall.

  • Program dashboards

    Views for care managers, study coordinators and operations leads showing enrollment, adherence, alerts awaiting review and support requests, with role based access so research staff never see routine care data they are not entitled to.

    Each team sees its own work and nothing more.

Who this is for

Four Boston teams that come to us.

The Boston health economy is dense: teaching hospitals in the Longwood Medical Area, life science and digital health companies across the river in Kendall Square, newer firms in the Seaport, and community health centers serving neighborhoods from Chelsea to Mattapan. Each starts from a different place. Some own the patients and the EHR; others own the product but depend on a hospital partner for access. Here is how we approach each starting point as medical app development Boston partners.

01

Academic medical center departments

A department may want its own app for a specialty program while central IT controls identity, the EHR and the patient portal. We work within that structure, using the hospital's single sign on and integration engine, following its security standards and keeping the department app consistent with the main portal, so patients are never asked to manage yet another password for one clinic. Department branding sits inside the hospital's visual standards.

Built to your central IT and security standards.

02

Research groups running decentralized studies

Investigators moving visits and data collection into participants' homes need eConsent, outcomes capture, device data and coordinator tools that stand up to monitoring and audit. We build to the protocol and your IRB's requirements, keep research data in the systems your institution approves and document every change for the study file. Device data from home monitors can flow straight into the study dataset with timestamps preserved and no manual transcription.

03

Cambridge and Seaport digital health companies

Startups often need a product that works in a hospital pilot now and in a national launch later. We design the data model for both, keep FDA regulated functions separable from wellness features and make sure the pilot hospital's data never mixes with commercial customer data. When a pilot ends, data return or deletion follows the pilot agreement and is recorded.

04

Community health centers and regional networks

Centers serving MassHealth members and uninsured patients need apps that work on prepaid phones, in several languages and with limited data plans. Telemedicine app development Boston community providers ask for usually starts with audio friendly visits, text reminders and simple self scheduling rather than feature heavy portals. Staff consoles show which patients prefer phone calls so outreach matches how people actually respond.

Designed for older phones and limited data.

How a Boston healthcare app moves from protocol to release.

  1. 01Stakeholder and protocol reviewWe meet clinical leads, privacy, IT security and, for research products, the study team, by video call, and record the rules each group needs the product to follow.
  2. 02Data and consent modelWe separate care data, research data and commercial data, define who may see each, and write the consent and retention rules into the architecture.
  3. 03Design with real patientsPrototypes tested with patients and coordinators, including non English speakers and older users, before engineering starts on any screen.
  4. 04Build and integrateApps, consoles and FHIR integrations built in short sprints with a demo at the end of each, every piece tested against the hospital sandbox before production access is requested.
  5. 05Security review and validationPenetration testing, a documented information security program for 201 CMR 17.00 purposes and validation records where research rules require them.
  6. 06Launch and scaleA first cohort or clinic goes live, issues are fixed quickly, and further departments, sites or study arms are added as configuration where possible, with each addition reviewed by privacy first.

Technology

What we build this with.

Swift, Kotlin or React Native apps, HIPAA eligible cloud hosting under a business associate agreement, FHIR and HL7 integration through your engine, and research exports in the formats your analysts already use.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Questions Boston healthcare teams ask us.

It depends on integrations, approvals and how many groups must sign off.

A Boston hospital project usually waits on security review, integration engine access and sometimes IRB approval, and those reviews often set the pace more than engineering does. We agree the timeline in discovery once we know which reviews apply, then plan sprints so design and build continue while approvals move forward. Dates are written down before design starts and updated openly if a review takes longer. Cost follows similar drivers: the number of EHR and device integrations, whether research validation is needed, the languages supported and how many departments share the build.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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