Healthcare Software
That Is Built Right
Secure, compliant, and ready for your clinical use.
If you are building a digital health product, a telehealth system, a medical device platform, or a HIPAA compliant healthcare application, you cannot afford software that breaks, slows your team down, or puts patient data at risk.
Onward Development designs and builds secure, compliant healthcare software that helps you launch faster and operate with confidence.
Trusted by teams building:
The Problem
Healthcare companies face enormous pressure to launch reliable, secure software, but most development teams do not understand clinical workflows, regulatory constraints, or healthcare operations.
When the technology is not built correctly:
Projects run over budget and over schedule
Sensitive data is stored or transmitted incorrectly
Clinicians avoid using the system because it does not match their workflow
Security and compliance gaps threaten credibility, funding, and partnerships
Leadership spends time fixing technical issues instead of growing the business
You need a development partner who understands healthcare, compliance, and real world clinical environments.
How It Works
Schedule a Strategy Call
We learn about your goals, clinical workflows, and technical requirements.
Get a Clear Build Plan
We define scope, architecture, compliance considerations, and timeline so there are no surprises.
Launch With Confidence
We design, build, test, and deploy software that is secure, scalable, and ready for real healthcare use.
Real Healthcare Software
Delivered Successfully
Telehealth Platform
Divan Medical is a telehealth startup that partnered with us to evolve a fragmented proof of concept into a scalable, HIPAA-compliant platform.
Learn more about Telehealth Platform
Digital Health Platform for a Cardiac Monitoring Medical Device
HEMOTAG is a medical device company developing a cardiac monitoring solution. After receiving a federal government grant to build a HIPAA compliant digital health application, the team needed a trusted partner to design and implement the software platform that would support their hardware.
Learn more about Digital Health Platform for a Cardiac Monitoring Medical Device
Custom Nurse Staffing and Workforce Management Platform
On Point Health Services is a nurse staffing company serving nursing homes and healthcare facilities. Onward Development built a unified workforce management platform that replaced manual scheduling, credentialing, and payroll processes with a single, automated system.
Learn more about Custom Nurse Staffing and Workforce Management Platform
HIPAA-compliant Infection Control Platform
SmartSteward is an infection control platform designed to help skilled nursing facilities prevent the spread of antimicrobial resistant bacteria. The product originated from the clinical insight of an infectious disease physician and was developed into a market ready digital health platform by Onward Development.
Learn more about HIPAA-compliant Infection Control Platform
Respiratory Monitoring Platform
This project involved a healthcare company funded by the federal government to develop a digital platform that helps respiratory assistants monitor patients in real time. Onward Development designed and built a cloud based system that ingests live data from respiratory machines installed inside hospitals and presents it through a centralized clinician dashboard.
Learn more about Respiratory Monitoring PlatformHow We Work Together
An award in hand starts a clock
NIH, NSF, or SBIR/STTR funding comes with milestones, reporting, and a budget that has to stretch. We help grant funded healthcare teams turn an award into working, compliant software, with a build plan that survives contact with both.
Fractional CTO and Technical Partner
$3,000–$6,000 / mo
5–10 hrs per month
Senior technical leadership without a full time hire. We sit in on the decisions that are expensive to reverse.
- Architecture and technology decisions you can defend to investors and auditors
- HIPAA and security posture oversight
- Vendor selection, hiring, and roadmap guidance
- AI and automation strategy
Strategy and Architecture Sprint
2 weeks · $7,500
Fee credited toward your build
A short, paid engagement that ends in a plan you can build from, whether or not you build it with us.
- Architecture and compliance review of your current stack
- Phased build plan with scope and cost model
- Risk register covering security, compliance, and delivery
- Fee credited if you continue into a build or retainer
Managed Services
Starting at $2,000 / mo
Ongoing, tiered by workload
Your platform stays monitored, patched, and audit ready long after launch day.
- Monitoring, patching, and dependency updates
- Backup verification and quarterly access reviews
- Incident response with defined response times
- Compliance evidence kept current for audits
Engagement models
Advisory Retainer
Ongoing technical leadership billed monthly. No headcount, no recruiting cycle.
Fixed Fee Sprint
Defined scope, defined price, defined end date. The lowest risk way to start.
Managed Services
We keep what is already live running, secure, and compliant.
Project Build and Team Augmentation
A full delivery team, or senior engineers embedded alongside yours.
What We Build
Telehealth and Virtual Care Platforms
Scheduling, video visits, secure messaging, intake workflows, and clinician tools.
Medical Device Cloud Platforms and Mobile Apps
Device data ingestion, dashboards, native iOS and Android apps, and custom device communication protocols.
HIPAA-Compliant SaaS and D2C Web Applications
Secure healthcare applications handling protected health information, patient intake, approvals, and e commerce workflows.
EHR and Healthcare Integrations
FHIR and HL7 ready systems designed to integrate with hospital environments and healthcare data ecosystems.
AI Assisted Healthcare Tools
Document processing, workflow automation, and data extraction for healthcare operations.
Operational Software for Healthcare Teams
Scheduling, credentialing, documentation, and internal workflow automation.
Why Trust Onward Development
Over 10 Years of Healthcare Experience
Building software for healthcare and regulated industries with deep domain expertise.
Global and Flexible Team Structure
Depending on project requirements, compliance needs, and client preferences, we assemble teams that are fully US based, fully international, or a hybrid model. This allows us to balance healthcare domain expertise, cost efficiency, and speed without compromising quality or security.
We have worked with:
- Digital health and medical device startups
- Companies backed by NIH, NSF, and SBIR/STTR grants
- Startups accepted into top accelerators including IndieBio and MedTech Innovator
- Teams deploying software inside hospital systems and clinical environments
Our experience includes:
We build software that clinicians can trust, patients can rely on, and organizations can scale.