Drive healthcare innovation with digital product experts

Design and develop quality and meaningful digital health solutions with a human-centered approach by working with thoughtbot. For over 20 years, thoughtbot has partnered on successful products with innovative healthcare leaders.

Whether you are a medical professional with your first app idea, a high growth VC-backed startup, an enterprise healthcare service provider, or a non-profit, let's talk about making your initiative a success.

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Deep experience

A trusted industry partner

Confidently navigate complex strategic decisions and foster stakeholder buy-in. thoughtbot experience includes:

  • Security Standards (GDPR and HIPAA)
  • Interoperability
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Medical Universities
  • Telemedicine solutions
  • Clinical trials and research
  • Workflow Optimizations
  • Health Insurance
  • Accessibility
  • Third-party Integrations (EHR, fitness apps, insurance databases)
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thoughtbot is absolutely a part of our product team and even our providers have been able to connect with them and share direct patient experience feedback. They've worked very seamlessly with our internal development team.

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Chantil Tan
Director of Product Technology Development, Airrosti Remote Recovery

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Client Stories

Whether you’re starting from an initial idea or have spent decades running a business, thoughtbot has the experience to help you create successful outcomes for your health tech product.

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Proactive, empathetic, and comprehensive

Senior expertise in each stage and vertical

Strategy

We'll help you uncover the right strategy and define the roadmap for your initiative. thoughtbot leads engaging exercises to generate ideas, collect requirements, and drive alignment with stakeholders.

Design

Our team specializes in translating user research into UI/UX to craft the most impactful experience. Our design approach ensures deep adoption while complying with standards.

Development

thoughtbot developers know how to deliver a quality, scalable, and secure solution that complies with regulations. We can lead greenfield projects or ramp up on an existing product confidently.

Quote about working with thoughtbot

thoughtbot didn't bring any preconceptions or misconceptions to the table. They were really good at listening and understanding the project. We worked together to identify the problems. After that, they let our end-users dictate the direction of the project, which was really powerful.

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Tiffany Shubert, Ph.D.
Senior Product Manager, Relias

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what sets thoughtbot apart

Influence change and innovate your healthcare company

For large healthcare organizations, workflows and technology solutions are complex and critical to maintain. thoughtbot ‘s approach to research and technical feasibility planning will minimize your risks and meet compliance requirements, all while keeping a laser focus on end-user impact. You get a clear action plan for execution and our stakeholder communication leaves your whole team with confidence in delivery at each stage.

Expand patient support with remote care

We love working with teams to create or improve custom applications that help them meet their patient needs where they are.

By identifying patient pain points and shaping the user experience to address those challenges, the quality of your treatment or therapy experience improves.

Remote care customer outcomes:

  • Reach patients in new or rural areas
  • Grow your patient or member service offerings
  • Extend support outside of regular office hours
  • Expand patient treatment windows
  • Provide 24/7 training material or videos accessible anytime.

thoughtbot perspective

First-hand learnings, resources, and strategies

Agile in Health Tech Workshop

Check out our Senior Developer share their guidance on how to stay agile when building compliant health tech products.

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thoughtbot Leadership

Our team of experts is constantly sharing their learnings and perspectives. We have an inventory of thought leadership on a variety of Health Tech topics.

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What does success look like for your Health Tech project?

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