DocTalk® Mobile Application
Description
DocTalk® was designed by AKDHC MIS in May of 2003. Since then the program has grown into a enterprise level interfaced application utilized by nephrologist and other specialties on web browsers and iOS mobile phone devices.
With the success and growth of the application throughout the nation, the demand for DocTalk® across all devices and platforms was necessary. AKDHC soon approached Dot Com Development to help with this task.
The primary goal of this project was to take AKDHC’s existing DocTalk® legacy iOS mobile application and port it over to a modernized and scalable HIPAA compliant mobile application mobile for Android devices.
Challenge
The challenges of this project included a maintaining full HIPAA compliance within the apps infrastructure and architecture, consuming data via numerous legacy API’s, and giving the app the ability to manage massive amounts of hospital and patient information that far exceeds the hardware capabilities of the devices that most users would be using the app on.
We started by analyzing the existing legacy iOS application around a non live test data set to uncover and define the functional and non functional requirements of the application. Because AKDHC wanted to eventually bring the iOS and Android solutions under a single infrastructure, architecture and code base, we took the time to investigate and advise on the best technology stack suitable for such a requirement that would still satisfy legacy API constraints and HIPAA requirements throughout.
Strategic planning was concluded with the creating of a Requirements/Specification document and continued into a full cycle development approach that included the following activities:
Screen wire framing and prototyping
Iterative development
API integration
Alpha testing and QA
Client UAT internal beta testing
Client UAT closed group beta testing
Product knowledge transfer and training
Marketplace publishing
Continued warranty support and maintenance
Solutions
The outcome of this project produced an Android mobile application built on a technology stack that would allow both Android and iOS application to be managed under a single codebase in the future when and if AKDHC decided to merge both code bases together for more efficient and easier management.
Impact
The Android application is now being distributed and used by by AKDHC physicians to record their daily activity including hospital, office, dialysis unit and surgery center charges increasing efficiency and reduce overall expenses.
