Healthcare app development teams that protect PHI on the device, not just the server.
Hire dedicated senior healthcare app developers as part of your team. We staff iOS, Android, and cross-platform engineers in the Philippines who build patient, provider, and mHealth apps, backed by the same teams behind SOTA Cloud and NavMD. This is the mobile companion to our healthcare software development practice.
- Inc. 5000 honoreefour years running
- 350+ senior engineerson staff, across every stack
- 200+ companies servedsince 2018
- 1,000+ engineer placementsinto US software teams
Not a dev shop building your app for you. Your healthcare app team, building with you.
Most healthcare app development companies quote you a fixed-bid project, build it behind a vendor wall, and hand back an app you can't maintain. We embed dedicated senior mobile engineers in your team. You own them, the code, and the roadmap.
The turnkey vendor model
The big custom-software shops
- Fixed-bid app build, scoped up front, priced in the hundreds of thousands
- Engineers walled off behind an account manager
- 30–40% overhead for layers you never meet
- Hand-off at the end, and nobody left who can ship the next release
The Full Scale staff-augmentation model
Dedicated engineers, embedded in your team
- $35/hr fully loaded, scale the app team up or down as you go
- Mobile engineers in your standups, Slack, repo, and roadmap
- No vendor wall and no PM tax, you manage them directly
- 93%+ retention means the engineers who built it keep shipping it
Co-founded VinSolutions, the #1 CRM in the auto industry ($150M+ exit), and founded Stackify
Built by a founder who has shipped and sold real software
Full Scale was founded by Matt Watson, a four-time founder and CTO with 20+ years in software engineering. He co-founded VinSolutions, the #1 CRM platform in the auto industry, acquired for around $150 million, and founded Stackify, a developer-tools company he later sold. He also wrote Product Driven, the engineering-leadership method every Full Scale engineer is trained on.
Full Scale exists because Matt kept hitting the same wall as an operator: good products stall when you can't hire and keep good engineers. That is the problem we solve, and it is why we vet for the senior, product-minded engineers most staffing shops never find.
Mobile engineers experienced across patient and provider apps
We don't sell you a pre-built app. We staff mobile engineers who have shipped healthcare apps before and know where the HIPAA and app-store landmines are.
Patient-facing apps
Patient engagement, scheduling, results, and care-plan apps for iOS and Android that keep PHI encrypted end to end.
Telehealth & virtual care apps
Video visits, secure messaging, and virtual-care flows wired into your scheduling and EHR.
mHealth & wearables
Remote patient monitoring, fitness and wellness apps, and wearable and device data capture on HealthKit and Google Fit.
Provider & clinician apps
Point-of-care, rounding, and clinical reference apps that fit how clinicians actually work on a shift.
App + EHR / FHIR integration
HL7 and FHIR integration so the app reads and writes the record cleanly instead of living in a silo.
App modernization & rescue
Rebuilds and rescues of healthcare apps that have aged out, stalled, or lost their original team.
Mobile engineers who have built under HIPAA, not around it
A healthcare app puts PHI on a device you don't control. Our engineers treat encryption, secure storage, and access control as the first design decision, not a fix after the app-store rejection.
Healthcare app teams we've staffed
Healthcare software engineering at FDA-cleared scale
A dedicated team helped build SOTA Cloud's FDA-cleared cloud dental imaging platform, used across 1,000+ dental locations on a C#/.NET, Angular, and Azure stack. The same engineering bar applies to the apps we staff.
Read the case study →Rescuing the build for a healthcare benefits platform
When NavMD's development team was dissolving, Full Scale engineers stepped in to rescue the employee benefits and healthcare cost platform without losing the in-flight work.
Read the case study →The healthcare app specialists on our bench
iOS engineers
Swift, SwiftUI
Android engineers
Kotlin, Jetpack Compose
Cross-platform
Flutter, React Native
Backend / API
.NET, Node, Python
Interoperability
HL7, FHIR, HealthKit
Security engineers
Mobile AppSec, HIPAA
Mobile QA
Device and clinical-flow testing
Solutions architects
App & data design
The healthcare app stack our engineers work in
iOS
Android
Cross-platform
Backend & API
Cloud & DevOps
Interoperability
Why most offshore healthcare app teams fail, and how to not be one of them
The mistake isn't going offshore for your app. It's hiring the cheapest mobile developer you can find and hoping HIPAA sorts itself out. I call that cheapshoring, and in a healthcare app it's how you ship PHI in plain text and find out in the breach report.
A patient app is unforgiving. You need mobile engineers who understand that data cached on a lost phone is a violation and a skipped auth check is a finding. That's a hiring bar, not a rate, which is why we accept under 3% of applicants and train every engineer on the Product Driven method.
From call to coding in 7 days
- 1Tell us the app platforms and stack you need
- 2We match pre-vetted mobile engineers from our bench
- 3You interview and pick your app team
- 4They start in your standups, repo, and roadmap
Healthcare App Development Services, answered
- Do your engineers build HIPAA-compliant apps?
- Yes. We staff mobile engineers who have shipped inside HIPAA and SOC 2-governed environments and design encryption, secure storage, and access control in from the start.
- Can you build for both iOS and Android?
- Yes. We staff native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) engineers as well as cross-platform Flutter and React Native engineers, depending on what fits your product.
- How is this different from your healthcare software development page?
- Same team, different focus. Our healthcare software development practice covers platforms, EHR, and interoperability; this page is the mobile and app side of that work.
- Is this a fixed-bid project or a dedicated team?
- A dedicated team. We are a staff augmentation partner, so you get mobile engineers embedded in your team at $35/hr.
- Who owns the code and the IP?
- You do, from day one. Our engineers work in your repositories under your process.
Staffing engineering teams across every industry
Healthcare app engineering guides
Healthcare software development
The platform, EHR, and interoperability side of our healthcare work.
Telemedicine app development
Building compliant virtual-care and telehealth apps.
EHR / EMR software development
Connecting your app to the record with HL7 and FHIR.
Cheapshoring: the healthcare version
Why the cheapest developer is the most expensive.