Healthcare IT consulting

Yalantis has been developing software solutions for the healthcare industry for over 10 years. Throughout this time, we have not only honed our technical skills but have also gained industry knowledge and extended our expertise to cover comprehensive business analysis. All this has enabled us to form a health IT consulting division within Yalantis that is dedicated to healthcare domain-specific solutions. Our healthcare department consists of 100+ subject matter experts (SMEs) that are fluent in their field, senior business analysts with multiple healthcare projects up their sleeves, and experienced solution architects that know how to deliver solutions that meet our clients’ needs and exceed our clients’ expectations.

To identify the root cause of a problem in the scope of our healthcare software consulting services, our business analyst team will scrutinize the existing solution or the client’s product vision and expectations inside and out. Their goal is not only to identify how the solution works and what it lacks but also how it should operate according to industry standards, end user expectations, the client’s long-term business goals, and competitors’ offerings. Whether the business logic requires some optimization, there are cumbersome workflows, or there’s unsellable functionality, our business analysts will come up with a detailed description of the obstacles that prevent the client’s business from scaling. They will also take a glance into the future by analyzing trends, user demands, and market competition in order to present possible outcomes of the current state of affairs.

The deliverable as a result of this in-depth analysis is a solution document that contains a list of options to save the solution and, consequently, the business. These options can be integrations with third-party services to provide end users with additional functionality, an architectural redesign to prepare the solution for future scaling and stable performance, business logic optimization to optimize processes, and so on.

Yalantis values its clients and is grateful for the trust they give us with each new project. In response, we do everything possible to ensure efficient development and save our clients’ resources. On-time delivery isn’t all we aim for. Our goal is to deliver a product that solves the client’s issues and is an effective tool for achieving the client’s goals.

We always look for the most beneficial ways to develop healthcare solutions. Here are some examples:

• When choosing between developing a custom solution and integrating with ready-to-use third-party services, our IT consulting healthcare team will go with third-party services if it’s more suitable for our client in terms of achieving their goals and meeting their needs. Opting for third-party services can reduce development costs, save resources, and accelerate the implementation of needed functionality.

• Our software engineers have extensive experience developing various healthcare solutions; thus, our clients can rely on them to choose the most appropriate and suitable development strategies. If there are better or more efficient ways of developing a solution or implementing specific functionality than those the client has chosen, our engineers will readily share them, along with detailed argumentation. This approach helps our clients save time and money.

• Our subject matter experts know how to develop solutions that will last for many years. They are constantly upgrading their knowledge and consulting our teams on future trends in security, regulations, and technologies. Using this knowledge, they make sure our clients’ solutions are built in accordance with all industry-specific requirements, capable of operating and actively scaling for many years to come, and secure for end users.

There are a multitude of similar examples. Let us know if you want to learn more about our health information technology consulting strategy.

We have had the opportunity to work on projects with varying team compositions, complexities, scopes of work, and deadlines. We’ve learned a lot over the years and have used that knowledge to design our unique project management and solution delivery strategies for healthcare information technology consulting.

To properly manage any project, it’s crucial to define its development approach. And for this reason, it’s even more important to understand what the client wants to see at the end — in other words, to accurately define the client’s goals. Sometimes, our clients don’t understand the full potential of the solutions they want to develop. In this case, our subject matter experts prepare a presentation for our clients on the solution’s future prospects and what’s important to take into account during the early stages of development. This is especially important for large and complex projects, as any mistake at the preparatory stage can cost a fortune later on.

Already at the negotiation and discovery stages, our project management team evaluates a project together with our subject matter experts in order to get a clear understanding of the resources needed. Based on the results of this evaluation, we can recommend the most suitable project management approach, such as the Agile or Scaled Agile framework.

With all details of a project in their hands, our team can also present the client with rough project estimates. This includes a list of suitable technologies and even possible integrations with third-party service providers. Such an approach helps to save the solution from undergoing a technology change (in terms of the programming language or framework) that will lead to delays and the need for more resources.

The healthcare industry is one of the most regulated. To legally operate on the market, your solution must comply with HIPAA, the CFR, and the GDPR (if your solution is for the European market). Additionally, to secure your end users’ personal health information, you have to apply special protocols for transmitting personal medical data, such as HL7 and the FHIR interoperability standards. Furthermore, ONC (Office of the National Coordinator) Health IT Certification is required to prove that your solution meets federal requirements for healthcare solution providers. Yalantis has experience working with all of these compliance requirements.

As an IT healthcare consulting provider, we will closely control the development process. It doesn’t matter if our development teams or your own IT department work on the solution. We will ensure that your product is able to securely store and process protected health information (PHI) by all means, no matter what.

Our medical IT consulting team will help you ensure security for different types of applications. For example, we will consult you on implementing data encryption, the HTTPS protocol, and SSL/TLS certificates for web applications. To secure patient sessions in your mobile application, we will help you configure multi-factor authentication and session time limits (timeouts). To secure in-hospital access to patient data, we would advise you to implement a role-based access control (RBAC) mechanism.

Depending on the type of project, we will come up with a custom cybersecurity strategy to secure all processes.