PSHYC+ – EHR Application For Psychiatry Clinics

Background

App Maisters was approached by a Houston-based company with the challenging task of developing a Software as a Service (SaaS) Electronic Health Record (EHR) application, specifically tailored to meet the stringent requirements of psychiatric clinics across the United States. The project mandate was not only to ensure that the EHR system provided seamless, intuitive functionality for healthcare providers but also to meticulously uphold the compliance standards set by HIPAA and HiTrust. This initiative was aimed at revolutionizing patient record management in psychiatric care, providing secure, efficient, and accessible records management to support the critical services these clinics offer nationwide. The partnership leveraged App Maisters’ expertise in secure software development and in-depth understanding of the healthcare industry’s regulatory landscape to build a solution that would set a new benchmark for EHR systems in mental health care.

Objective

To develop a Cloud based EHR application that’s fully compliant with HIPAA/HiTrust and help clinicians keep track of Patient historical data, check ups, reminders, correspondences, documents, Lab results, Vitals signs and in general helps monitor and improve the quality of care in the practice. The application was also required to facilitate sharing data outside the practice with other health care providers, such as laboratories and specialists. In addition, it was also required to send prescription electronically to pharmacies through out the United States.

Solution

App Maisters Cloud experts developed the application based on Azure Cloud and delivered a fully compliant HIPAA/HiTrust application. The application was also made FHIR compliant so it can easily exchange informaton with other Healthcare applications like lab systems, Imaging systems etc. App Maisters provided e prescription module by incorporating APIs from Weno Exchange. For billing, the application was integrated with a third party Billing company. On Cloud, the application was developed through Native Cloud Features of Azure and used server less architecture to deliver the solution.

Tools & Technology

  • C #.Net
  • Laravel
  • Angular JS
  • Azure Web role and Container Service
  • Azure Function
  • Azure SQL
  • Serverless Architecture

Results

  • Client is extremely happy with the product.
  • The app was highly scalable and secure and meet all the compliance guidelines
  • The app was architected to ensure future client needs of integrating with Fitness devices and BI reporting needs.