{"id":28197,"date":"2021-10-03T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/?p=28197"},"modified":"2021-11-03T05:03:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T05:03:43","slug":"virtual-cto-for-healthcare-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/virtual-cto-for-healthcare-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"How Our Virtual CTO for MedTech Startups Can Fuel Your Startup Growth by 10X?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color:#7b68ee\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Working with healthcare technology has always been challenging.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, none of the technologies originally emerged for the healthcare industry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#7b68ee\" class=\"has-inline-color\">We have to customize it or sometimes use it as it is but with a unique approach to actually use technologies in the healthcare sector.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, IoT was first used in the Coca-Cola Machine. But we made it very mainstream technology in the healthcare sector.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this era, almost all modern medical devices work on IoT technologies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#7b68ee\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Healthcare CTOs are always responsible for such exploration of technologies and making each useful technology healthcare-friendly.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be it a healthcare startup or Coca-Cola company, CTOs always drive growth and infuse innovation to solve age-old problems technologically.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#7b68ee\" class=\"has-inline-color\">So, if you are a medtech startup and looking for a virtual CTO, we can help you a lot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our other fun and valuable resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/top-cancer-care-startups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Top cancer care startups<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/hipaa-for-web-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HIPAA testing for web app<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/healthtech-investors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Top healthcare investors<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/pharmacy-workflow-automation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pharmacy workflow automation<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Who are our virtual CTOs for medtech startups?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>They are experts in what they are doing.&nbsp;<\/li><li>They have 7+ years of experience working with healthcare technologies.&nbsp;<\/li><li>They become part of your team but do not burden your startup.&nbsp;<\/li><li>They work with your team and achieve things with technologies.<\/li><li>They know which healthcare technology works best and where.&nbsp;<\/li><li>They prioritize healthcare compliance over everything.&nbsp;<\/li><li>They never compromise with value and usability.&nbsp;<\/li><li>They are local Canadians, having on-ground knowledge of healthcare markets.&nbsp;<\/li><li>They have extensive knowledge and experience working on healthcare app, software development.&nbsp;<\/li><li>They always define risks and prepare risk mitigation strategies.&nbsp;<\/li><li>They provide plans, strategies, consultation, and even implement things by themselves.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The most luxurious thing they offer to you is peace of mind!&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>The roles our virtual CTO plays for the growth of your healthcare startup <\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#7b68ee\" class=\"has-inline-color\">To give you a better idea, let us define our CTO roles as per different stages of your healthcare startup lifecycle.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Stage 1: Idea Validation in Discovery Phase<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When you only have a great idea but are not sure if it is technically feasible, if feasible then what\u2019s next and most importantly how to technically achieve it.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our virtual medtech CTO assesses your idea and plans for a tech foundation on which you will build your successful health tech startup.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Technical feasibility study<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>CTO will evaluate whether it will be ever possible to give life to your healthcare startup idea. And for that, he carries out a detailed technical feasibility study.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This study includes what to achieve and different possibilities to achieve it using different technologies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also includes the most efficient technologies to achieve your healthcare startup idea as well as the potential risks and how to mitigate each risk.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>&nbsp;<strong>Innovating&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once CTO knows the idea you have is technologically feasible, he will try to fine-tune it with innovations. He aims to make it more innovative and creative in the form of technology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, he finds out different technologies which can take your medtech startup idea to the next level.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Developing an MVP<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here comes the first execution part. Keeping budget and compliance as top priorities, CTO will plan MVP development of your healthcare digital solution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For MVP development, he will work with developers to make implementation paths clear and easy for them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outcome would be a digital solution with basic and useful features to test it in the real market for collecting user feedback and testing the product.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Stage 2: Early Stage Startup&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Upgrading Your Healthcare Digital Product (App\/Software)&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once MVP runs successfully in the market, CTO will plan for its upgrade. He is now ready to create app architecture based on cutting-edge technologies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He works with the development team to add custom features working on different technologies but these technologies are already pre-defined by him in stage 1.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Stage 3: Reaching Product-Market Fit&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As you expand, your technology needs become more common and complex. Time for CTO to be more engaged in your startup\u2019s tech infrastructure.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>IT Infrastructure Management&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As you grow, your IT infrastructure also grows and achieves a certain mark of complexity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be it server, cloud, data storage, APIs, everything needs to be managed and make sure it is capable to withstand increasing user footprints.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CTO here remains very active and always ready to go the extra mile to keep IT infrastructure up and running on the latest updates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If needed, he suggests upgrading the IT infrastructure with a proper study and execution plan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Ensuring Security of the Product&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With your product getting mature in terms of features and user base, several new security issues may pop up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CTO carries out different technical security audits to discover security vulnerabilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there are security vulnerabilities, CTO plans to eliminate those technical security gaps and make sure your product has adequate technical security measures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Stage 4: Growth<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you achieve success with the product you have always been dreaming of, you always wonder what\u2019s next!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Developing the Product Vision&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>CTO makes the product ready for the next 5 years with his vision. He prepares the long-term plan for the product feature rollout. He facilitates you to own the future-ready product working on space-age technologies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Launching New Advanced Features&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To keep dominating the market, you need to keep rolling out advanced features around user needs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CTO now shifts his focus on rapid but risk-free feature launches to expand your already large user base.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>&nbsp;<strong>Ensuring Competitive Advantage<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>CTO utilizes cutting-edge technologies to make your product more user-friendly, advanced and affordable but profitable than your competitors to gain a competitive advantage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>We recently helped telehealth startup from ashes to glory with tech consultation, development, compliance and integration&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#7b68ee\" class=\"has-inline-color\">An Ontario-based telehealth startup approached us with an idea. That\u2019s what they only had and that was enough!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They wanted us to guide them through technical compliance, workflows, development, and health system integration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And like always, we did it exceptionally well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#7b68ee\" class=\"has-inline-color\">But how? Well, the technical team led by our CTO started off with the discovery phase.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#7b68ee\" class=\"has-inline-color\">We figured out the best technologies for his telehealth platform. To be specific, we decided to build a cross-platform product using Flutter to keep his capital cost low.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To keep his operating cost low, we used WebRTC for the web version of his telehealth platform as WebRTC is a free video calling framework.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#7b68ee\" class=\"has-inline-color\">We later filled every technical security gap and made the product compliant with all technical regulations of compliance laws.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our top priorities were a scalable and secure platform and we justified it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#7b68ee\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Lastly, we did the most difficult part of any healthcare IT project &#8211; system integration. We integrated EMR\/EHR with his telehealth platform while meeting all interoperability standards.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project outcomes were,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Value&nbsp;<\/li><li>Peace of mind&nbsp;<\/li><li>Technologically outstanding platform&nbsp;<\/li><li>Utilization of groundbreaking technologies&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Future-ready platform&nbsp;<\/li><li>Advanced features working seamlessly&nbsp;<\/li><li>Healthcare data sharing and fetching between multiple systems&nbsp;<\/li><li>Compliant with all data privacy laws<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working with healthcare technology has always been challenging.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Well, none of the technologies originally emerged for the healthcare industry.&nbsp; We have to customize it or sometimes use it as it is but with a unique approach to actually use technologies in the healthcare sector.&nbsp; For example, IoT was first used in the Coca-Cola Machine. 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