Telemedicine & healthcare

Telemedicine software development that holds up in a real consult

We build HIPAA-grade telehealth in house, including the video layer most healthcare dev shops rent. 250+ real-time projects since 2005, 2,000,000+ dev-hours worked.

250+real-time projects100%Upwork Job Success5.0on Clutch, 31 reviewsIn-house since 2005
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Telehealth we shipped,running on real patients and real money

Primary care, in-hospital language access, and AI voice work already in production.

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“A detailed wireframing and user stories are done in a fantastic way and timely fashion. All my requirements are taken care of, and the result is that it greatly facilitated development cost estimation and technology stack analytics. Highly recommended for all projects large and small!”

Christopher Highley, Owner at Preferred Family Medicine (CirrusMed)
Christopher HighleyOwner · Preferred Family Medicine (CirrusMed)
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What does telemedicine software development involve?

Telemedicine software development means building the clinical workflow, the video, and the compliance layer as one product: scheduling, the consult itself, the note, the prescription, the payment, and the patient record behind all of it. Fora Soft has shipped 250+ real-time video and AI products since 2005, including HIPAA telemedicine platforms in live clinical use.

Most telehealth projects come apart in one of two places. Either the video degrades the moment a patient joins from a phone on a weak connection, or the visit data never reaches the chart and clinicians go back to typing everything twice. Both are engineering problems. Both are why we write the media layer and the integration layer ourselves instead of buying them from a vendor whose roadmap is not ours.

What we build

What goes into a telemedicine platform?

Eight things decide whether clinicians keep using the product after month one.

Patients get seen without calling support
Video chats on a diversity of devices

Patients get seen without calling support

Clinical video that survives a bad network. We build on WebRTC with mediasoup, LiveKit, Janus, or Pion depending on your topology, hold latency under half a second, and fall back to audio or a phone bridge over SIP when the connection will not carry video. Multi-party consults, screen share, and consented recording included.

AI telehealth video platform development →
Clinicians stop retyping the visit
AI reports generation and virtual assistant

Clinicians stop retyping the visit

AI notes and medical charting that write back to the chart. This is the block an AI telemedicine software developer is usually hired for. The consult is captured, transcribed with medical speech recognition, and drafted into a structured note the clinician edits and signs. Nothing is filed automatically. The draft is a draft until a human approves it, which is the only version a compliance officer will accept.

The record lands in the EHR you already run
Electronic Medical & Health Records (EMR/EHR)

The record lands in the EHR you already run

EHR integration into Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), and athenahealth. We work over HL7 v2 and FHIR, including SMART on FHIR launch, and use an aggregator like Redox or Health Gorilla when you need many systems at once instead of one deep integration. Which route is cheaper for you is a scoping question, and we answer it before we quote.

EHR and FHIR integration, in depth →
Prescriptions and labs move without paper
medical prescriptions & AI-powered tests

Prescriptions and labs move without paper

E-prescribing and lab orders wired into the visit. Surescripts for prescriptions, EPCS where controlled substances are in scope, LOINC-coded orders and results back into the patient record. The clinician finishes the consult and the order is already gone.

Scheduling and intake that do not leak PHI
medical workflow automation

Scheduling and intake that do not leak PHI

Booking, intake, and reminders built on the same access model as the rest of the product. Insurance eligibility over 837 and 835, payment capture, automated reminders, and AI voice booking with ID verification where you want the front desk unloaded.

Remote monitoring that flags what matters
Medical images and AI-powered analysis

Remote monitoring that flags what matters

Device data with a clinician queue at the end of it. We ingest readings, set thresholds with your clinical team, run anomaly detection over the stream, and route what crosses the line to a person, so nobody is watching a dashboard hoping to catch something.

Language is not what blocks the consult
multilanguage support

Language is not what blocks the consult

Real-time interpretation and captioning inside the visit. Live speech-to-speech translation, interpreter dial-in over SIP, and captions in the call, so a patient who does not speak the clinician's language still gets seen the same day.

Compliance is a build decision, not a form you sign at the end
Compliance Architecture

Compliance is a build decision, not a form you sign at the end

HIPAA handled in the architecture. We sign a BAA, encrypt in transit and at rest, build role-based access with audit logging that a HIPAA audit can read, set retention and de-identification rules with you, and keep production in your cloud. HITECH breach-notification duties, the information-blocking rules under the 21st Century Cures Act, and 42 CFR Part 2 where substance-use records are in scope. GDPR health data and PIPEDA where your users sit outside the US.

Telemedicine glossary: HIPAA, BAA, FHIR, WebRTC →
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How it works

How does a telehealth software development project run?

Five steps. You get something you can act on at the end of each one.

Step 1

Discovery call

One call, then structured requirements, a recommended stack, and a block-level estimate broken down by feature. Free after that first call.

You get
Requirements, stack, per-block estimate
Step 2

Clickable prototype

You click through the product and change it before anyone writes code. Cheapest place to change your mind.

You get
A prototype you can click through
Step 3

Specs agreed with you

Scope, integrations, and the compliance surface written down and signed off. This is where the EHR route and the BAA chain get decided, not later.

You get
Signed scope, EHR route, BAA chain
Step 4

Senior-only build

Engineers orchestrate AI agents and review every change by hand. You get technical documentation as we go and a written status report every week.

You get
Weekly status report and docs
Step 5

Launch and after

Deployment, app store submission, and support. Demos monthly or whenever you ask for one.

You get
Production in your cloud, monthly demos
The steps above are illustrative. Every project follows its own path, and we’ll agree on the specific plan before work begins.Book the discovery call
Build vs buy vs hybrid

Should you build a telemedicine platform, buy one, or do both?

Honest answer first: most clinics should buy. Read this before you brief anyone, including us.

Most clinics

Buy a ready platform

Standard consults, standard notes, standard billing, and you can live inside someone else's roadmap

Time to first patientDays
What you controlConfiguration
What it costs you laterPer-seat or per-visit fees that scale with your success, and a feature request queue you do not control
Where it breaksThe day you need something the vendor will not build
Buy the platform, build what it will not do

Hybrid

The platform covers the clinic but blocks one thing your business depends on

Time to first patientWeeks
What you controlConfiguration, plus the part you built
What it costs you laterTwo systems to keep in sync
Where it breaksThe integration seam between the two
100% flexibility and control

Build custom

The product is the business: your workflow, your integrations, or your video is the thing patients pay for

Time to first patientAbout two months to a pilot
What you controlAll of it, including the media layer
What it costs you laterEngineering you own and have to maintain
Where it breaksYou underestimate the compliance work, not the code

We build at every level. Start with a ready platform, extend it with the features and integrations it cannot provide, or build the product from scratch — we can support all three paths. Our role is to help you choose the right architecture and then build the capabilities your business depends on, whether that means filling the gaps in an existing platform or owning the entire product stack.

Telemedicine software guide →
Tech stack

What stack do we use for telemedicine software development?

Real-time media

WebRTC
mediasoup, LiveKit, Janus, or Pion
SIP with FreeSWITCH and Asterisk

Clinical data

HL7 v2 · FHIR · SMART on FHIR
Redox · Health Gorilla
Surescripts · LOINC

AI

Speech recognition and TTS for medical audio
OpenAI, Anthropic, open-weight Llama for notes and summarization
Computer vision on PyTorch where a camera is part of the diagnosis

Product

React and Next.js on web
Native iOS and Android
Electron on desktop

Infrastructure

AWS or Azure under a BAA
Your own on-premise hardware when the data cannot leave the building
Use cases

Who we build telemedicine software for

Remote multi-doctor consult
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Direct primary care and subscription clinicsMembership billing, panel management, async messaging between visits.
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Hospital systemsIn-hospital interpretation, specialist consults across sites, integration into the EHR already in place.
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Behavioural and mental healthRecurring sessions, group therapy rooms, consent and 42 CFR Part 2 handling.
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Remote patient monitoring and chronic careDevice ingest, thresholds, escalation to a clinician.
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Employer and travel healthCross-border provider networks, multi-language consults, eligibility checks.
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Specialty and diagnosticsDevice video, remote microscope control, drawing on a live image during a consult.
Pricing

How much does a telemedicine platform cost?

One number is honest, and it is the floor. What sits above it depends entirely on what you add.

The floor
From $12,800
about 2 months · a working telemedicine website
Accounts and access
Paid video consultations
Medical records
One platform — web, desktop and mobile browsers

A first working version a clinic can pilot and charge for. Not a platform, and we will not describe it as one.

Everything else is a block you add

Each block is quoted on its own; under each one — what moves its price. Add as many as you want, drop any one without touching the rest. No tiers.

2 of 12 blocks picked
Scheduling and remindersRoles and permission levels
Insurance eligibility and claims837 / 835 · how many payers
E-prescribing with EPCSControlled substances change the compliance surface
Lab orders and resultsLOINC mapping per lab
EHR integrationHow many EHRs · direct or via aggregator
AI note draftingWhere PHI may go: vendor BAA, your cloud, on-prem
Real-time interpretationLanguages · interpreter dial-in over SIP
Remote patient monitoringDevice types · thresholds set with your clinicians
Native iOS and Android appsTwo more platforms to build and release
Clinician desktop appA third platform, Electron
On-premise deploymentData may not leave your building
Records migrationOut of a system you already run
Taking payment for a consult is already in the floor. What sits above it is everything that happens around the consult.Get the quote, free
Pricing follows the product, not a rate card. Every project is scoped around its features, integrations, complexity, and requirements. You get a clear estimate before development begins, with costs tied to the work we actually build.
Time & Materials

How most of our clients work

  • You pay for hours worked, billed weekly
  • A detailed timesheet shows where every hour went
  • Change direction any week, no renegotiation
  • Any change to the estimate is approved by you before the hours are spent
Get a free estimate
Fixed price

When you need one number signed off

  • Available after discovery, on a scope we document together
  • One price and one timeline, agreed before development starts
  • Changes to that scope are quoted separately
  • Best when the scope is settled and unlikely to move
Ask about a fixed scope
How to choose

How to choose a telemedicine software development company

Five questions worth asking every vendor on your shortlist, including us. Open each one for our answer.

1 · Who writes the video layer?
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2 · Who signs the BAA, and how far does the chain go?
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3 · What happens to the code if you leave?
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4 · Can they name a client in production, with a number attached?
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5 · Is the estimate broken down before you commit?
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Founded a telehealth startup?Free MVP planning and a clickable prototype before you commit budget.
Own a SaaS product that needs clinical video or AI?Start with a free code audit and a two-week paid trial of a dedicated team.
Running IT at a hospital or a payer?Production stays in your cloud, you own the code, and each discipline has its own department on our side.
FAQ

Telemedicine developmentcommon questions.

Cost, timeline, compliance, stack, IP and takeovers.

Ask an engineer
How much does telemedicine software development cost?
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What is the cheapest useful telemedicine build?
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How long does it take to launch a telehealth product?
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How do I choose a telemedicine software development company?
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Should I build custom telemedicine software or buy a platform?
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Do you sign a BAA and build to HIPAA?
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Can you integrate with Epic, Oracle Health, or athenahealth?
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What does AI telemedicine software development actually produce?
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Where does PHI go when an AI model is in the loop?
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Who owns the code and the IP?
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Can you take over a telemedicine project someone else started?
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What is your telehealth video stack?
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Real products

Named clients, real numbers: a primary-care platform, an on-premise clinical comms stack, an interpreter network.

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