Using IoT to Drive Better Patient Outcomes

We partnered with a visionary healthcare technology company to develop a HIPAA-compliant IoT platform for their revolutionary wearable patient ID monitoring device helping foster advancements in patient experience and remote monitoring.

SERVICES
Tech Advisory
Technical Architecture
UI/UX Design
Development

TECHNOLOGY
Ruby on Rails
React Native
Bluetooth
NFC

CLIENT

Charting a new path for better patient outcomes

Remote patient monitoring has emerged as a game-changer in an era where healthcare demands a new level of innovation and efficiency to improve patient outcomes.

Enter our client partner, a visionary healthtech startup seeking to revolutionize the healthcare landscape by replacing traditional hospital wristbands with their groundbreaking wearable patient ID device that enables hospitals to remotely and securely track patient biomarkers.

Whitespectre's 3-year collaboration with this partner began when we developed the platform's mobile apps for their initial product offering, an analytics platform for large-scale live events. From the start, however, our client partner was clear about their long-term vision - using the wearable patch to revolutionize patient care. As they prepared to enter the healthcare market, our client called on Whitespectre to extend their existing platform and create the critical web and mobile applications needed to successfully trial their solution in hospitals.

Navigating the complexities of healthcare integration

Our client's first goal to achieve their long-term vision was to bridge gaps in patient experience by replacing traditional hospital wristbands with their wearable patient ID device. To make this a reality, the solution needed to smoothly integrate into existing healthcare infrastructure.

Accordingly, the Whitespectre team first revised and extended the cloud-based platform we'd previously architected for their analytics product. Next, we built new software to integrate with hospital electronic medical record (EMR) systems and 'print' the wearable patches. In parallel, the team developed an easy and lightweight application for hospital staff to use with patients during the admissions process.

Navigating HIPAA-compliant processes and creating software that both met stringent data security requirements and seamlessly integrated into existing hospital workflows required an expert team. The Whitespectre delivery pod, composed of backend and frontend engineers, QA, UI/UX, and product and tech leads rose to the challenge, with Whitespectre's CEO Nick Tudor acting as the client's interim CTO.

Whitespectre was able to effectively navigate the complexities of working with large hospital IT teams, inspiring confidence from our partners and making sure the cloud-based solution they built for us met hospital security standards and HIPAA compliance. Their leadership and guidance were critical for us being able to launch our trials. As partners, they've embraced our longer-term vision and continue to work with us on building towards that.

Peter D. ConstantinoMD, Founder & Chief Medical Officer

Enabling remote patient monitoring and empowering clinicians

As our client's hardware engineers progressed towards updating the patient ID device to capture biomarkers for remote monitoring, Whitespectre developed the software in parallel, to support remote data streams, the first one being temperature monitoring.

This work included developing both the backend architecture and a React Native app that enabled clinicians to associate a single device with a patient, calibrate individual temperatures, and set personalized settings, including frequency of temperature collection and alert thresholds. Additionally, Whitespectre developed the technical architecture to support a patient room BLE gateway device.

Integrating NFC and BLE technologies into the remote patient monitoring solution posed unique challenges. Whitespectre engineers collaborated with our client's own hardware team to ensure seamless data flow, minimized signal interference, and maximized the battery life through data sync frequency optimization.

Behind the scenes: Engineering innovation

For the on-demand, on-premise customization of the patches, our team needed to ensure seamless integration between our client's cloud platform and hospital printers.

To support this, our engineers conducted a comprehensive network-level investigation to reverse-engineer the software of the standard hospital printer. We then implemented a microservice-based cloud architecture that enabled a plug-and-play printer setup where encrypted and processed patient data could be securely transmitted from the client's platform to the hospital printer. The architecture of the system was built to ensure that communication between internal microservices was secure and to facilitate remote configuration and management of the physical printers.

Both the hospital partners and our client believe that this is the first instance in the US where a software solution enables printing from an outside cloud platform directly into the hospital premises.

The next chapter of healthcare innovation

By the conclusion of our work with this client, pilots with the patient ID device had been successfully run in large hospital systems across the US, using the software developed by Whitespectre. Through a strong partnership and dedicated knowledge transfer, we smoothly transitioned ongoing development of the software to the client's in-house teams, and their innovative product has successfully gone on to receive FDA approval.

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