Patient-facing mobile apps
Appointment booking, medication tracking, health data logging, telehealth integration. Native iOS and Android, reliable on every device.
Why teams choose 5e
Since
2015
11+ years
Projects
100+
Shipped
Retainers
30+
Active clients
Zone
CST
US-aligned
Appointment booking, medication tracking, health data logging, telehealth integration. Native iOS and Android, reliable on every device.
Dashboards for clinics and practitioners. Patient management, scheduling, reporting. The kind of tools that replace the paper forms still on the front desk.
Recovery and wellness tools like Alavida. Progress tracking, content delivery, community features.
Health app users range from 18 to 80. The interface has to be clear, forgiving, and accessible. We design with real user constraints, not developer assumptions.
Health software is different. The data is sensitive. The users are anxious. The regulations are strict. Unlike a SaaS dashboard where a 500 error means someone refreshes, a failure in a health app can mean a missed medication reminder or a lost patient record.
We've built and maintained health applications for Heal App, Alavida, Hope Vascular, and Abrams Derm. Each required careful data handling, UX for non-technical users, and the reliability healthcare demands.
We're honest about this: we're a software team, not a health-IT compliance consultancy. If your project needs HIPAA certification, HL7/FHIR integration, or FDA software classification, you'll need specialists for those areas. We handle design and development, and we work alongside your compliance team to make sure the technical side meets regulatory requirements.
Yes. We help health and wellness teams launch new products, modernize older systems, and ship features faster with a Costa Rica-based engineering team.
We work on patient-facing apps, wellness platforms, coach dashboards, intake flows, scheduling, subscriptions, and internal care operations tools.
Yes. Many clients bring us into an existing product, legacy codebase, or internal team that needs more delivery capacity without starting over.
Mobile apps, React web apps, Node.js or Laravel/PHP backends, secure data handling, analytics, and integrations with the tools your care team already uses.
Health products need privacy, role-based access, careful QA, and clear data-handling decisions. If your market requires HIPAA or similar controls, we plan the build around those requirements with your compliance stakeholders.
Costa Rica gives North American health teams real-time collaboration for product decisions, QA, and support flows that can not wait a full business day.
A focused health or wellness MVP can ship in a few months. Products with mobile clients, coach workflows, or regulated data usually take longer.
Yes. Some clients hire us for full project delivery, while others add one or more developers, designers, or QA people to an existing internal team.
You get North America-friendly time zones, direct communication, and senior product-minded execution without the latency that usually comes with distant offshore delivery.
We begin with your product goals, technical constraints, compliance concerns, and delivery timeline. Then we recommend the right team shape and implementation plan.

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