Vertical · Healthcare & Wellness

Apps for healthcare practices and wellness businesses

Patient-facing apps that handle booking, intake forms, and secure messaging — without the overhead of an enterprise EHR platform or the monthly subscription tax of generic practice management software. Built for small practices and wellness businesses that want to own the patient relationship, not rent access to it.

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The problem with generic practice management platforms

$200–$600

/month for platforms like Jane App, Mindbody, or SimplePractice — before add-ons for telehealth, forms, or marketing.

Generic

patients interact with the platform's brand during booking, not yours. The experience looks identical to every other clinic using the same software.

Locked

patient records and appointment history live inside the vendor's platform. Switching providers means a painful migration or losing data entirely.

A custom app is not the right move for every practice. But for multi-provider clinics, wellness businesses with strong membership models, and practices that want to differentiate on patient experience, the numbers tend to work out in 18–30 months.

What we build for healthcare and wellness

Patient booking

Self-scheduling by provider, service type, and availability. Appointment reminders via push and SMS. Cancellation and reschedule flows with your policies built in.

Digital intake forms

Health history, consent forms, and intake questionnaires completed before the first appointment. Stored securely in the patient record, accessible before the visit. No clipboards, no scanning.

Patient records & portal

Appointment history, treatment notes (provider-side), documents, and billing. Patients can view their own records, download documents, and track care plans in-app.

Memberships & packages

Monthly wellness memberships, session packs, annual plans. Auto-renewing billing, pause-membership flows, and family account grouping. Works for both clinical and non-clinical wellness businesses.

Secure messaging

HIPAA-compliant in-app messaging between patients and providers. Not a standard SMS thread — encrypted, logged, and scoped to the clinical relationship. Optional for non-clinical wellness apps.

Billing & payments

Stripe-powered copay and self-pay collection in-app. Saved cards for recurring membership billing. Invoice history and receipts accessible in the patient portal. No separate billing portal login.

Common questions

Healthcare and wellness apps typically fall in the Business Utility tier ($6,500–$9,000) for appointment booking, intake forms, patient records, and billing. Simpler wellness apps — class booking and membership management for non-clinical businesses — often fit the Companion App tier ($4,500–$6,500). Clinical apps with EHR integration or telehealth video add scope beyond these ranges. Estimate your cost →
HIPAA compliance is an architecture and infrastructure requirement, not a feature. Apps that store or transmit Protected Health Information must use encrypted storage, secure API transport, audit logging, access controls, and BAAs with every third-party vendor that touches PHI. We build with HIPAA-compliant infrastructure for clinical projects. Non-clinical wellness apps (fitness tracking, class booking, loyalty) typically don't handle PHI and don't require the same architecture. This is scoped explicitly in the Discovery phase. See the project process →
For the core functionality — booking, intake forms, memberships, payments, and client records — yes. A custom app doesn't charge per-location monthly fees or transaction percentages, and your patients interact with your brand rather than a generic platform. For clinical practices with complex EHR requirements, a custom app works best alongside an existing EHR as a patient-facing complement, not a full replacement.
Yes — digital intake forms are a standard feature. Patients complete health history, consent forms, and intake questionnaires before their first appointment. Responses are stored securely in the patient record and accessible to the provider before the visit. Forms can be triggered as a push notification or email link before the first visit, or completed during account setup. Eliminates the clipboard at check-in and reduces appointment time spent on paperwork.

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Your patients deserve a better experience. Your practice deserves lower overhead.

Tell us about your practice size, current platform, and what's frustrating you. We'll model whether a custom app makes financial sense for your situation.

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