Healthcare apps, built like the data in them matters

We build with both in mind, but we want to be precise about what that means. HIPAA has no official certification, and no agency — including us — can legally declare a product "GDPR compliant"; that determination belongs to your counsel or an accredited auditor. What we actually do is build in the technical safeguards both regimes require — access control, encryption, audit logging, data minimization, retention and deletion — and offer a separate engineering gap-analysis service if you want an existing product formally reviewed against both.

The same three bands apply as any Applefy project: 3-6 weeks for a simple build ($20K-$40K), 2-4 months for a mid-complexity product ($40K-$100K), and 4-8 months for a complex build ($100K-$250K+). Healthcare products usually carry enough data-handling and integration work to land in the middle band or higher, but we scope the specific case on a call rather than guess.

Same ladder: $20K-$40K for simple projects (3-6 weeks), $40K-$100K for mid-complexity products (2-4 months), $100K-$250K+ for complex builds (4-8 months). A health product’s cost usually tracks its data architecture and compliance-review needs more than its screen count.

As the hardest part of the build, not an afterthought. That means minimizing what we collect, encrypting it in transit and at rest, enforcing role-based access control, logging who touched what, and building deletion and export paths in from the start — the same safeguards our HIPAA/GDPR review service checks for on existing products.

No — and we’d be direct with anyone who implied an app development agency could. Clinical validation and regulatory clearance (FDA, CE marking, and similar) are a specialist’s job: a regulatory consultant, a clinical research organization, or qualified counsel. Our part is building software to a standard that doesn’t get in the way of that process — reliable, well-documented, data-safe. Mellow is a good example of staying inside that lane: it alerts emergency contacts to possible seizure activity, and it doesn’t diagnose, predict every seizure, or carry a clinical clearance.

Yes — it’s some of our most directly relevant healthcare work. Mellow runs on iPhone and Apple Watch, using motion sensor data to recognize seizure-like movement and alert emergency contacts. We also build watchOS apps more generally, with HealthKit, workout and activity data, and sensor-driven features native to the wrist.