Case Study: How to Deliver a PoC for a HealthCare Product in Less Than 2 Weeks

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In this article, we share our experience on how to develop a healthcare app, specifically focusing on delivering a Proof of Concept (PoC) for a German healthcare startup in less than two weeks.

⚠️ What Was the Problem?

It's not a secret that Germany is reported to have one of the best healthcare systems in the whole world. However, a great medical treatment quality doesn’t provide a convenient documentation system behind it, and that’s where pitfalls occur.

The patient should have another appointment with the doctor to sign all the extra papers and keep the copies afterwards. As paperwork is getting digitized step-by-step, both sides shouldn’t waste their time on an appointment to sign one document and this was the main problem for our client to solve.

✅ What Is the Solution?

To reduce paperwork and omit unnecessary appointments, , a doctor provides to a patient either a QR code or a personal PIN code for authorization in a web app. In case of scanning a QR code, a patient gets to a page with already entered PIN code. However, authorization without a QR is possible only after manually entering a personal PIN code given by the doctor.

The next step after authorization is an additional patient verification. Here it’s required to enter a medical insurance serial number and a date of birth of a patient. After the verification a patient gets to a page with a PDF version of the agreement to sign virtually. The signed copy is saved in the database of an insurance company and voila, there is no excessive paperwork for both sides.

⚙️ What Was the Technical Challenge?

For this project we were reached out by the company we were earlier recommended to. The web app should be compatible with the services of one of the biggest German insurance companies. With this app, our client is planning to obtain funding from this company in the near future.

The task for us was to create a Proof of Concept (PoC) represented by a web-application with the support of QR codes. It should have contained several input fields for the medical insurance number, the date of birth and the PIN code. As soon as the user completes the verification, we show them a PDF-version of an agreement. To approve the validity of a document, it’s enough for a user to press the confirmation button below the agreement.

💡 Takeaways

As a result, in less than two weeks we managed to deliver a several-screen web application for making medical insurance processes in Germany slightly easier and less time-wasting. Even though it was just a Proof of Concept, we do believe that it can make the German healthcare system more doctor- and patient-friendly.

If you have any questions or need help with creating mobile or web Poc/MVP, let us know. We will be happy to help you meet your business needs with an outstanding product!