The importance of tech partnerships as catalysts for innovation
In today's healthcare industry, innovation isn't just a buzzword – it's a necessity for progress. One key driving force behind this innovation is the collaborative efforts between tech agencies and tech stack providers. These partnerships play key roles in streamlining development processes, saving valuable time and costs for software development companies, in our case, digital health products.
Our healthcare development team at Light-it has proved that by teaming up with tech providers such as ROOK, software development companies can leverage pre-existing frameworks, tools, and resources, significantly reducing the time required to build robust solutions. This collaborative approach allows our tech leaders and developers to focus their efforts on areas that truly enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the product.
To deepen the previous concept, these partnerships can lead to cost savings by eliminating the need to reinvent the wheel. Rather than starting from scratch, developers can tap into existing technologies and platforms, reducing development costs and accelerating time-to-market. This not only benefits the software development company but also translates into cost savings for healthcare providers and institutions implementing these solutions.
Moreover, collaboration with tech stack providers enables developers to stay at the forefront of technological advancements without getting bogged down by the intricacies of building and maintaining underlying infrastructure. This allows them to concentrate on enhancing features, improving user experience, and addressing specific healthcare challenges, ultimately delivering more value to end-users.
In essence, these collaborations catalyze innovation in the healthcare industry by optimizing development processes, reducing costs, and allowing developers to focus on areas that can truly drive product efficiency and effectiveness.
The challenge faced
We believe technology has a genuine ability to improve people's lives, and we are aware of how challenging it can be for businesses to turn a concept into a working product.
We established our Digital Health Innovation Lab to assist our partners in navigating challenging projects and excelling in what we do.
Our innovation experts were in search of a solution that made it easy to integrate digital health products with diverse medical devices and wearables to showcase our experience and technical skills in the matter.
We found ROOK to be the perfect partner for tackling this challenge because it enabled us to consolidate integrations with various data sources provided by wearable technology into a single API.
How ROOK's API helped Light-it develop a HealthTech PoC
With ROOK, we were able to make the data available efficiently for our digital health product, Vitality.
Vitality is a React Native app that allows the use of Bluetooth-low-energy medical devices to record certain health measurements such as blood pressure and heart, oxygen saturation, weight, and temperature. The app allows the end user to connect one or several wearable devices (such as smartwatches, thermometers, electronic scales, or oximeters) for health and wellness monitoring. In other words, it is a personal wellness center specializing in at-home health.
ROOK’s solution enabled digital health companies to integrate, analyze, and centralize health data through their API.
Our healthcare software development team at Light-it identified ROOK’s main value as the possibility of providing businesses with more insightful health data through a single integration. We can swiftly analyze and add data from hundreds of wearables to acquire more actionable insights and a deeper understanding to spur innovation.
The result:
This integration visualizes sleep data from a wearable, a goal achieved without Light-it developers having to familiarize themselves with that wearable's specifics.
Vitality’s dashboard displays statistics on the sleep patterns of an end-user
Through ROOK’s integration, Vitality can now monitor and share info on the person's sleep patterns.
All data that comes from ROOK is harmonized, standardized, and cleaned.
Light-it's customers value easy-to-understand and unified report-based.
Light-it's customer's profit from lower development costs (addressing the Buy vs. build dilemma).
We now have only one integration to maintain and one stakeholder to refer to sync data from your end-users wearable devices no matter what hardware they use, such as Garmin, Whoop, Oura ring, Apple Watch, Polar, you name it!
Final insights
The proof of concept developed by the Light-it innovation team is a true reflection of the power of partnerships in developing new technologies and digital health products.
This solution could be repeated easily for other wearables or other data visualization use cases with low costs for discovery and development. As previously mentioned, not having to integrate one-by-one all the data sources saves, but only having to integrate with ROOK saves time for the development team and gives it back to the company to enhance their own value proposition and further ways in which their unique value can continue adding value to their digital health project product users.
Written by: Agustina Bigatti - Light-It
