A Healthcare Marketplace for Practitioners and Patients

An Online Health Consultation Marketplace

Industry

Healthcare

Core technologies

CoffeeScript AngularJS Ruby on Rails AWS

Health Marketplace

A Platform for Health Practitioners and Patients

This platform brings health practitioners and patients together and allows patients to communicate with practitioners and get individual nutrition and exercise recommendations.

Challenges

Our clients wanted to help people stay fit and healthy by providing a convenient way to contact health practitioners and get consultations. That’s how they came up with the idea of an application that brings patients and practitioners together.

When our clients contacted the RubyGarage team, work on their project had already started but they had no production version. In addition to developing a production version, they also wanted to upgrade the application and extend its functionality. Since it’s a startup, we had to find the best solutions as fast as possible.

We were responsible for:

Performing a rescue mission to discover the state of the existing application and come up with solutions to fix possible issues
Extending application’s functionality with marketplace features and an ecommerce store for purchases straight on the website
Creating a responsive version of the website along with a user-friendly interface
Enabling users to access the platform from mobile devices

Booking

Patients can browse through doctor ratings, reviews, and hourly rates and book an appointment straight in a Booking tab.

Diet plan

Sorting and diet plan cards help patients make an informed decision on a preferable diet plan.

Shop

Patients may purchase the dietary supplements without leaving the platform.

Users can contact health practitioners on-the-go with a mobile application

Users can access the platform from mobile devices

Solutions

First, we conducted a code audit to analyze the existing codebase for security vulnerabilities and issues with the app architecture.

After we fixed the initial code, we moved on to automated tests to ensure that the application was ready for further upgrades like implementing full-scale marketplace functionality and several integrations.

We also developed a mobile app for iOS that enables efficient communication between patients and health practitioners.

We took the following steps:

Wrote automated tests to ensure the high quality of the application
Ensured scalability by using several Amazon services including S3, RDS, and Elastic Compute Cloud
Implemented dynamic page rendering using AngularJS to transform the product into a single-page application, making it responsive and fast
Developed custom marketplace functionality to provide efficient communication between practitioners and patients, implement payments between patients and practitioners, and enable patients to choose between subscription models and practitioners to set subscription plans
Implemented an online store based on Spree to let patients buy products right in the in-app store
Implemented integrations with Stripe to provide an effective online payment solution and with the Faye messaging system to enable live text chat
Developed an iOS mobile app that supports video conversations between patients and health practitioners

Technology Stack

CoffeeScript
Angular JS
Nginx
Postgre SQL
Ruby on Rails
Spree
RSpec
Puma
AWS
Chef
Stripe
Airbrake
Twilio
OpenTok
more

Results

To improve the quality of this application, the RubyGarage team refactored the code and fixed critical problems. We also implemented marketplace functionality and several integrations to provide new business opportunities for the product.

With these solutions, the product became a scalable and reliable application that’s ready to meet its users’ needs.