This project is a collaboration with medASTUTE, a specialty healthcare consulting company based in the United States and our business partner. During one of our meetings, medASTUTE informed us that about an opportunity to team up on a project for a US-based health tech company. It was about a solution for a new government healthcare provider program, Primary Care First (or PCF).

Primary Care First is designed to reduce Medicare spending by preventing avoidable hospital admissions and improving quality and access to care. It increases patient access to advanced primary care services and offers physician practice groups an innovative payment structure (fee-for-service to value-based care) with financial benefits to provide these additional health services.

medASTUTE’s partner tried to sell a service that supports a transition from one financial structure to another and calculates financial benefits. However, they had a hard time finding interested clients due to the huge amount of private practice/hospital data that had to be shared with the company to run tests and figure out even a simple fact of eligibility for PCF application

medASTUTE came up with an idea, while we offered our expertise to develop an MVP for the sales department that would take publicly available data (instead of inquiring it from the practices) and provide directionally correct results for the companies. It helped physician practices to understand if they should switch to PCF from fee-for-service. In case they did, the offer would pose to buy product from medASTUTE partners that supports the new payment model with clinical management software, supporting all types of operations under PCF. 

The automation of this MVP solution provided significant value in establishing medASTUTE’s credibility in the Healthcare Analytics market. By showing that our partner could take a concept from a business problem to a functioning solution in such a short period, the company proved that their vision for delivering value to clients and partners was viable.

In addition to delivering a valuable calculator for this government program, medASTUTE identified two other markets (telehealth and essential Medicare services) and prototyped solutions for both markets. This has led to much larger market potential for their services. 

The project team consisted of one frontend developer, two backend developers, a business analyst and a project manager.

The technology stack included Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Amazon API, AWS Lambda, AWS CDK, Python’s Flask, Angular and GitHub.

The duration of the project was fairly short. It was completed in under a month.