Healthcare Mobile App Development Company
We build HIPAA-compliant iOS and Android apps for clinics, health systems, and digital health startups. Patient portals, telehealth, RPM, clinical field tools, and care management apps - designed for the people who use them and the regulations that govern them.
HIPAA-compliant by default - PHI encrypted at rest and in transit, audit logs, BAAs with every vendor
Offline-first for clinical environments - wards, home visits, and areas with no reliable signal
Connects to your EHR via HL7 FHIR R4 - Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth, and regional systems
Patient-facing and clinician-facing apps from the same team - no vendor handoff between them
Fixed price agreed before development starts - 10-14 week average delivery
Recent outcomes
Telehealth platform · US healthcare provider
60% reduction in in-person visits
Built a HIPAA-compliant telehealth app with video sessions, secure messaging, and EHR integration for chronic disease management. 50+ clinics onboarded in 12 weeks.
Remote patient monitoring · Health system, US
25+ clinics enrolled in 60 days
Deployed an RPM mobile app connecting CGM, BPM, and pulse oximeter devices to a provider dashboard. Automated threshold alerts reduced response time by 70%.
Patient wellness app · Digital health startup, UK
2,000+ active patients
Built a chronic disease management app with medication reminders, symptom logging, and care team messaging. 2,000+ active patients within 14 weeks of launch.
The problem
Clinicians switching between three apps to complete one patient encounter?
Your patient portal is a desktop-only web form and mobile users simply don't use it?
Previous app failed HIPAA audit because PHI was stored in device logs or local storage?
App rejected from the App Store because health data handling wasn't documented correctly?
Short answer
RaftLabs builds HIPAA-compliant iOS and Android healthcare apps for clinics and health systems in the US, UK, Ireland, and Australia. Patient portals, telehealth, RPM, and clinical field tools. 50+ clinics on our RPM and telehealth platforms; 2,000+ active telehealth patients. Fixed-price delivery in 10-14 weeks.
Key takeaways
A nurse finishes a home visit and opens one app to log the encounter, another to check the medication list, a third to message the physician. The patient was sent a portal link that only works on desktop, so they never opened it.
Somewhere in that stack, PHI ended up in a device log, and the last app failed its HIPAA audit.
The fix is not another app. It is one app, built for the people who use it and the regulations that govern it.
According to McKinsey, 62% of healthcare leaders say generative AI will deliver the highest value in improving patient engagement, a shift that is accelerating investment in purpose-built mobile apps that connect patients, clinicians, and care data in real time. For health systems and digital health startups, the mobile app is no longer a convenience layer: it is the primary engagement surface, and its compliance and integration quality directly determines whether patient outcomes improve.
RaftLabs has shipped 15+ HIPAA-compliant mobile products across telehealth, RPM, patient portals, and clinical field tools, rated 4.9/5 by clients on Clutch. 50+ clinics have onboarded onto our RPM and telehealth platforms, with 2,000+ active telehealth patients. The team that maps your clinical workflows is the team that builds the app and handles App Store submission, so healthcare domain knowledge is applied from day one, not acquired on your project budget. EHR data flows both ways via HL7 FHIR R4 for Epic, Cerner, and Athenahealth, and HIPAA compliance runs at 100% on every healthcare engagement.
Everything on the left should already be true for your practice or health system. Even one thing on the right, and a configured off-the-shelf patient app is the smarter first step.
A clinical or patient workflow that off-the-shelf health apps can't fit, plus an EHR (Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth) to integrate against.
PHI in play, so HIPAA compliance has to be designed in, not bolted on before launch.
Budget for a fixed-scope build and a clinical lead who can sign off on scope.
What we build
The stack is confirmed in the project brief so your security review and compliance team can assess it before development starts: Flutter and React Native for a single iOS and Android codebase, Swift and Kotlin when a product needs HealthKit depth or hardware integrations, Node.js or Python on the backend, PostgreSQL with row-level security for PHI, and AWS infrastructure with server-side encryption. For clinical field tools, offline-first is not optional: encounter data, forms, and assessments queue locally in wards with signal dead spots and on rural home visits, then sync to the EHR when connectivity returns, with conflict resolution so simultaneous updates never produce data loss.
30 minutes. You leave with a clear cost, timeline, and a compliance architecture outline. No commitment required.
How it works
We map every user type - patient, nurse, physician, front desk - through the workflows the app needs to support. You leave week one with a written scope, an EHR integration assessment, a HIPAA compliance architecture document, and a fixed-price quote.
HIPAA controls, data flows, and PHI handling are designed before code is written. Every screen is wireframed and reviewed with your clinical leads. Figma files show how PHI is accessed, displayed, and protected at each step.
Bi-weekly sprint delivery. A working app build is available on TestFlight and Android beta from sprint one. QA and HIPAA compliance checks run in parallel with development at each sprint - not as a phase at the end.
We handle App Store and Google Play submission including health data privacy documentation, screenshots, metadata, and age ratings. We budget for one Apple review cycle. Your team receives full source code, compliance documentation, and app store credentials.
What clients say
Three-year average engagement. Founders and operators describing the work in their own words. No marketing varnish.
IndonesiaRaftLabs elevated my ideas and brought them to life when everything seemed impossible.
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Where you land in these ranges depends on scope, not negotiation:
What it costs
One week of clinical workflow mapping, then a HIPAA-compliant build from discovery to App Store submission.
Fixed total agreed before development starts, not an estimate with an open ceiling. 10-14 week average delivery.
You get a written scope, a HIPAA compliance architecture outline, an EHR integration assessment, and a fixed-price quote before any code is written.
Fixed price
We scope the app, calculate the cost, and lock it in writing before development starts. A scope change is a priced change request, agreed before work begins, never absorbed silently.
Post-launch support included
8 weeks of bug fixes, OS compatibility updates, and performance tuning after launch, included in the project price, with on-call availability during the critical first 30 days.
Healthcare Software Development
Custom clinical and patient-facing platforms - web, mobile, and API.
Telehealth App Development
HIPAA-compliant telehealth with video, scheduling, and EMR integration.
Remote Patient Monitoring
RPM platforms with device data ingestion and provider dashboards.
AI for Healthcare
Clinical AI, patient monitoring automation, and diagnostic support.
EHR Integration
FHIR R4 and HL7 integration for Epic, Cerner, and regional systems.
Patient Portal Development
Secure web and mobile portals for records, scheduling, and messaging.
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Read moreA focused HIPAA-compliant patient app - core workflow, EHR data display, secure messaging, and App Store delivery - typically runs $30,000-$60,000. A full-featured telehealth platform with video sessions, scheduling, and EHR integration runs $60,000-$100,000. RPM apps with device integrations (CGM, BPM, pulse oximeter) start around $50,000 and scale with the number of device types connected. The fixed total is agreed before development starts, not an estimate with an open ceiling. Request a 30-min call to get a number for your specific project. These ranges reflect our portfolio: 15+ HIPAA-compliant products shipped across telehealth, RPM, patient portals, and clinical field tools.
Most healthcare mobile apps ship in 10-14 weeks. A patient portal with appointment management and EHR data view typically delivers in 10-12 weeks. A telehealth platform with video, scheduling, and EHR integration takes 12-16 weeks. RPM apps with multiple device integrations run 14-18 weeks. The timeline starts with one week of clinical workflow mapping before any code is written. That week produces a written scope document, a HIPAA compliance architecture outline, an EHR integration assessment, and a fixed-price quote. Development does not start until your clinical leads and IT team have reviewed and formally signed off on all four documents.
HIPAA controls are designed into the architecture before the first line of code, not retrofitted as a checklist at the end. Every healthcare app we ship includes: PHI encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3); multi-factor authentication for all users with session timeout enforcement; no PHI stored in device logs, crash reports, or local analytics libraries; role-based access so patients see only their own data; Business Associate Agreements with every infrastructure provider (AWS, Twilio, Stripe) before PHI flows to them; and a HIPAA compliance review before production deployment. We provide a documented data flow diagram and compliance summary for your legal and compliance team.
Yes. We connect via HL7 FHIR R4 for Epic App Orchard, Cerner FHIR Millennium, and Athenahealth API - patient demographics, appointments, clinical notes, results, and medication lists. Older systems that don't expose FHIR APIs are handled via HL7 v2 messaging or direct database integration where the EHR vendor allows it. The integration approach is assessed during week-one discovery so we know the exact connectivity method, authentication flow, and data scope before development starts. We test against a sandbox instance of your EHR before any production cutover. EHR integration is always two-way where the use case requires it: the app reads from the EHR and writes back (appointments, encounter notes, device readings) in the same session.
Both. Patient-facing apps: appointment booking and reminders, secure messaging with the care team, symptom and medication logging, telehealth sessions, lab results and care plan access. Clinician-facing apps: patient lists and encounter documentation, RPM dashboards with alert thresholds, clinical decision support, field visit tools for home health and district nursing, and e-prescribing. We build both from the same team in the same project where the use case requires a matched pair, so the patient experience and the clinician experience are designed to work together rather than handed off to separate vendors. This avoids the API disagreement that commonly surfaces in week 8 when two agencies are building toward each other's interface.
Flutter and React Native for iOS and Android from a single codebase - our default for healthcare apps because it halves the testing and compliance surface area. Swift (iOS) and Kotlin (Android) when the product needs HealthKit depth, platform-exclusive APIs, or hardware integrations that cross-platform cannot handle. Backend: Node.js or Python (FastAPI), PostgreSQL with row-level security for PHI, AWS for infrastructure (ECS, RDS, S3 with server-side encryption). Integration stack: HL7 FHIR R4 for EHR connectivity; Twilio Video or Daily.co for HIPAA-eligible video sessions; Dexcom, Omron, Apple HealthKit, and Google Health Connect for device data. The stack is confirmed in the project brief so your security review and compliance team can assess it before development starts.
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