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Teams that build a health app with grant funding usually treat the award as the hard part and the build as what comes after. The award has published guidance behind it. The build runs on federal rules that are mostly locked in before you hit submit.

On an SBIR Phase I your company has to perform at least two-thirds of the work itself, so no more than a third of the tot...

Most teams arrive at eCOA app development expecting a survey app with compliance bolted on near the end. Forms, a scheduler, some encryption, a submit button, and a security review somewhere before launch. The screens really do look like that. That picture is where the budget goes wrong.

In two published phase 3 trials, roughly a fifth and a third of baseline diary ent...

Modern medicine could use some help from remote patient monitoring apps (aka RPM apps). Hospital stays keep getting pricier, and chronic conditions eat a growing share of every care budget, so an app that allows doctors to monitor patients remotely and keep track of their vitals is an easy sell.

So it’s no surprise that both incumbents and startups are quite active in ...

Two questions come up on almost every telehealth discovery call, usually before anything else: where do the doctors come from, and how does the pharmacy plug in?

The honest answer is that a direct-to-consumer telehealth business runs on two rented rails. One is a 50-state physician network that supplies the clinicians. The other is a pharmacy, often a compounding pharm...

A security questionnaire lands in your inbox and asks, somewhere on page 3, whether you’re “HIPAA certified.” Or an investor asks the same thing on a call, and you’re not sure whether the honest answer helps you or sinks the round. HITRUST vs SOC 2 vs HIPAA is the comparison most digital health founders back into exactly this way: three names that show up in procurement and d...