Connected Health Solution for a Medical Device Company

Our client Is a multi-billion dollar healthcare company. For this engagement, we partnered with the Global R&D division which focused on the creation of medical devices.

CHALLENGE

This organization has a service offering to provide treatment in their patients’ homes. The treatment machines run on a modem and a jump drive, programmed with the treatment. This is a non-connected health solution and the modem is only able to do one-way communication. Treatment files are sent back to clinic nurses, but patients would need to go back to the clinic if any changes need to be made, increasing inconvenience and health risk to the patients.

APPROACH

The client turned to us to help them identify key resources for the design, architecture, and development of these solutions.

We provided Project Managers, Architects, and Analysts to this team to lead and architect the software supporting their Global Therapy Management and Connected Health Platforms. They were primarily focused on the core and extended services of managing home therapies and operations, as well as Connected Health IoT.

IMPACT

One component of this solution is a prescription application (SaMD) that can send treatment data to the cloud and into the home treatment machines. This has bidirectional communication where physicians can send prescriptions.

Our resources also did architectural work for Mobile Application Architectures and Enterprise Services (HIE, IAM, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, ML/AI/AR). The development is Java based. There is Bluetooth connectivity with the machine, WiFi communications, and it is a cloud device. It is integrated from there with many other systems including their ERP (SAP). This new technology will be piloted soon in patient homes. Our client has done a pre-sub of the prescription application and is awaiting FDA approval.