A Healthcare Platform with AI Care Suggestions for Patients with Obesity

About the Client

The Client is MoreLife Athletics — a digital wellness startup offering its members AI-guided coaching, custom workouts, and personalized meal plans.

A Digital Health Platform Was Needed for Obesity Care

The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and advancements in digital health technologies prompted the Client to develop a medical platform for patients with obesity and the healthcare practitioners working in this field.

The Client's team came up with a startup idea: a mobile platform that helps patients maintain healthy eating habits, prepare for and recover from bariatric surgery, and provides healthcare practitioners with real-time data about their patients' progress.

The Client decided to start with MVP development to build up the user base and get feedback early on, so it was looking for a vendor proficient in medical software development.

A HIPAA-Compliant, Microservices MVP With AI Suggestions

Trusting INNERLUXES's a track record of experience in healthcare IT, the Client turned to INNERLUXES for MVP design and development. For the project, INNERLUXES assembled a team comprising a project manager, a senior business analyst, a UX/UI designer, a solution architect, two senior back-end developers, a senior front-end developer, two senior Xamarin developers, a data science expert, two QA engineers, a DevOps engineer, and a regulatory consultant.

The project started with a thorough analysis of the market and the Client's goals. After that, INNERLUXES conceptualized the product idea, elicited the functional and technical requirements for the platform, and outlined the core feature set.

The solution architect then designed a microservices-based architecture to enable easy deployment of future platform modules, provide the needed integration capabilities, and ensure high scalability.

The product design stage took one month. Over the next five months, INNERLUXES performed Agile MVP development, testing, integration, and stabilization. The delivered HIPAA-compliant MVP included:

• A cross-platform mobile application for patients with obesity, enabling:
  • Vitals tracking, patient symptom monitoring, and physical activity tracking (via integration with health trackers such as HealthKit and Google Fit).
  • Consumed-calorie counting (via integration with Nutritionix).
  • Personalized suggestions for a healthy lifestyle, a diet plan, and successful rehabilitation after bariatric surgery.
  • Instant messaging to get post-operative care advice from assigned healthcare professionals.
  • Gamification: individual challenges to help patients shape healthy habits (for example, take at least 5,000 steps a day).
  • A payment module (payments via card, Apple Pay, and Google Pay).
• A cross-platform mobile application for doctors involved in bariatric care and obesity treatment, enabling:
  • Real-time access to patient health data (for example, weight, calorie consumption, symptoms, vitals, and physical activity) and patient progress reports.
  • Instant messaging to reach assigned patients with treatment recommendations.
• A web admin panel for platform management.
• A shared back end and central data storage for platform data (for example, ePHI, chat records, and personalized patient recommendations).
• An AI engine for smart suggestions (for example, personalized diet tips).

When development and stabilization were complete, INNERLUXES deployed the fully functional MVP to the AWS cloud and provided the Client with the complete software documentation needed for further MVP evolution (for example, developing additional web apps and integrating the platform with the EMR systems of partnering health providers).

A Ready-to-Market MVP in 6 Months

Within six months, the Client received a ready-to-market MVP of a healthcare platform for patients with obesity. Pleased with the collaboration outcomes, the Client proceeded with the MVP launch and marketing the platform to its target audience.

Technologies and Tools

AWS, Node.js, Python, TypeScript, React.js, FeathersJS, Xamarin, MongoDB, HTML, SCSS, Nginx, Docker, Nutritionix, SciPy, LightGBM.