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Build your own neural network using Machine Learning & TensorFlow

Welcome to the exciting world of machine learning! If you missed attending our workshop in-person, don't worry; we've got you covered.

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A MedTech app made secure and scalable: Visilant Eye Tester

Discover our work with Visilant, a company dedicated to provide essential eye care for those who lack access.

Software engineering

AR and VR apps in healthcare: A glimpse into the future

How will AR & VR techologies revolutionize healthcare? We summarized what to expect in the near future.

HealthTech

The best resources to learn about Digital Health

We collected some of the most helpful and informative resources on Digital Health out there.

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Creating light and dark themes with Figma Variables

In this blog post, we explore Figma's Variables feature, light & dark themes and their role in shaping the future of web design.

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Health data integration made easy: Epic, Cerner, and more

Explore how we've made health data integration a breeze by leveraging the power of top-tier platforms like Epic and Cerner, along with other...

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DynamiCare: Patient-centered UX design in a rehabilitation app

Learn how we scaled up an MVP to a working app using adjustable team capacity.

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Connecting doctors and patients with Medicall’s telehealth service

See how we designed a complex telehealth system for Medicall using React, Amazon cloud, and 3rd party integrations.

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AI perspectives in web-based HealthTech projects

Learn about how can you use AI in your web-based HealthTech projects! We tested it in our healthcare app and collected our insights.

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Melanoma Snail NFT Market: When healthcare meets crypto

We worked on an exciting project, the Melanoma Snail NFT market that connects the different worlds of health prevention and crypto.

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Maximizing efficiency: Testing no-code solutions in healthcare apps

Bubble is one of the most popular no-coding platforms. With its help, you can make websites, e-commerce and booking projects, and web-based applications.

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Building a smart running app with personalized training plans

This is how we built the Coopah app with Garmin integration and a custom training algorithm.

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The beginner’s guide to Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)

Discover the world of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) – a transformative innovation at the intersection of technology and healthcare.

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Navigating the complexities of Epic and Cerner EHR Systems

Embracing the world of electronic health records, healthcare providers often find themselves grappling with the intricacies of Epic and Cerner...

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HealthTech conferences to attend in 2023

As HealthTech conferences are a great way to stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, we collected the greatest events of the year!

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FemTech – It’s not a niche!

FemTech's innovative solutions create a more equitable, inclusive, and empowered future for women worldwide – now take a look at what FemTech...

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The biggest investments in HealthTech in 2022

There have been significant updates in the lives of HealthTech organizations in 2022. We collected the most important industry news!

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AI and Machine Learning: Where are the gaps in HealthTech?

AI and Machine Learning can alter the responsibilities and the need for a human workforce; in some cases, they can replace it entirely. But...

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Technology challenges faced by HealthTech companies

This article collected the four biggest roadblocks HealthTech organizations need to tackle.

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The HealthTech trends we’ve seen in 2022: Innovation and rapid growth

We collected some of the biggest trends we discussed in our "HealthTech trends in 2022" webinar.

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Webinar recap: how to design a new digital service

Watch a video to get an intro how to design a HealthTech service and the methodology to develop it.

HealthTech

How to build a scalable digital product and how to fail one

Watch our presentation at GIANT Health and learn how to avoid pitfalls by managing software deisgn and development.

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How to improve UK’s most popular app by NHS

Here is how we would improve login flow and information accessibility of the NHS app used by millions in the UK.

HealthTech

Gamification for patient care, medical education, and virtual engagement

Gamification is increasing in popularity in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and event industries. Guest article by Natalie Yeadon.

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Q&A With Startup Focused On Better Health Habits: Uplyfe

Read the story of the HealthTech app delivering AI-powered self-care

HealthTech

These 4 HealthTech Startups Are Amazing

Learn more about innovations in the fields of gene sequencing, opioid harm reduction, medical cooling and advocacy.

HealthTech

Meet Award Winning CEO, Who Recovered $50M for Hospitals

Sapphire provides patient-centric, cost-effective, cloud-based SaaS solutions to healthcare providers enabling access to data mines and RCM information.

HealthTech

Interview with HealthTech Award Winner: iPill Dispenser

Interview with iPill Dispenser, a digital health hardware innovation designed to improve prescription adherence and reduce opioid diversion...

HealthTech

Remarkable HealthTech Innovations in March

Learn about the 4 startups from the HealthTech Startup Award.

HealthTech

Q&A with HealthTech Award Winner: Ready, Set, Food!

Sapphire provides patient-centric, cost-effective, cloud-based SaaS solutions to healthcare providers enabling access to data mines and RCM information.

HealthTech

The Story of Modality.AI: HealthTech Award Winner

Modality.AI monitors patients' neurologic and mental conditions in the safety of their homes through multimodal conversational AI.

HealthTech

HealthTech Startups February showcase

Meet the startups from the HealthTech Startup Award

HealthTech

Meet Walk With Path, HealthTech Award Winner

Walk With Path develops a range of mobility-focused wearables that focus on reducing the risk of falls in vulnerable individuals and improve...

HealthTech

What Product Does the Healthcare Industry Sell?

Healthcare is structured as a B2B industry, even though health is the ultimate B2C product. Guest article by Chris Saxman

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How COVID-19 Has Proven that HealthTech Needs AI

by Balint Bene, CEO of bene : studio and member of the HealthTech Networking Club. HealthTech services have been at the forefront of the COVID-19...

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5 lessons about Telebehavioral Health

The ethical, technical, clinical evolution, and the future of mental health technology.

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Intellihealth named HealthTech Startup of November

Intellihealth is focused on the specialized treatment of chronic conditions using digital technologies combined with medical science, behavioral...

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Bringing HealthTech to Underserved Communities

The Telehealth RapidConf: September online event was live on September 17th. It is a monthly knowledge-sharing event organized by the Telehealth...

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Telehealth Startup of October: Wellsheet

Wellsheet is a predictive clinical workflow platform that changes the electronic health record experience by using machine learning and EHR...

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How IoMT is revolutionizing Healthcare

The Telehealth RapidConf: September online event was live on September 17th. It is a monthly knowledge-sharing event organized by the Telehealth...

HealthTech

Telehealth Startup of September: cliexa

Telehealth Networking Club member and winner of the Telehealth Startup Award in September Mehmet Kazgan, CEO and Founder of cliexa spoke with...

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Telehealth Startup of September: LifeCuff Technologies

Telehealth Networking Club member and winner of the Telehealth Startup Award in September Thomas Moore, CEO of LifeCuff Technologies spoke with...

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KidsX launches Accelerator

Telehealth Networking Club member, KidsX has launched its new Accelerator where leading health startups and children’s hospitals are united...

HealthTech

Event Recap: Telehealth RapidConf: September

The Telehealth RapidConf: September online event was live on September 17th. It is a monthly knowledge-sharing event organized by the Telehealth...

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Using Schedulers and Cron in Node.JS

Follow out tutorial and learn about scheduling in Node JS

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Principles of wiriting clean code

Lessons we learned from our favourite book on software development.

Open source

Why we love Next.js and server-side rendering

You should use Next.js because of its benefits in SEO, Integrated routing, pre-rendering and styling.

Open source

Integrating Garmin into a running app

Learn how we integrated Garmin library into the Coopah running companion app and what challenges we came accross.

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Functional programming in Java with examples

See examples if this style of programming, to make code more concise and less complex.

Open source

How to become a VSCode power user

In this article, we are going through some of our most commonly used extensions, key bindings, and best practices.

Open source

Web workers in JavaScript and when to use them

Learn about zero-copy transfer performance compared to structured cloning.

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What is the use of context API in React?

Do a deep dive with our article and learn how it compares to Redux.

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Using micro-frontends architecture to build more scalable applications

Important points to know before moving from monolithic frontends to micro-frontends.

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Static caching based on cloud services

Walkthrough of the most popular Content Delivery Networks: AWS CloudFront, Google Cloud CDN Azure CDN and Cloudfflare CDN.

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React Native Workshop: Connect Native Modules to build an awesome Music Creator

Join our free, online React Native workshop on August 5.

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Comparing Reactotron & React Native debugger

How can we efficiently get rid of bugs using the debugger applications for React Native?

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Building a Tree Shaking friendly JavaScript Package

Reducing the size of the final bundles is important, but can be tricky. Let's see how we do it.

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Using Create React App for Generating Custom Boilerplates

Exploring Create React App templates and react-scripts to learn how to build your own boilerplate.

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How Can Caching Improve your Health App?

Learn how to properly use cache strategies to improve your application quality.

Open source

Guide to Access Previous Props or State in React Hooks

In some cases we need to know a previous value of a prop or state in React component. We show you how we do it.

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How to Lazy Load your React Components

In React, lazy() is a function that lets you load components lazily through what is called code splitting without help from any external libraries.

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Manage translations online with React

In an earlier article we shared that extracting messages is the best way for internationalization in React. But you shouldn’t stop there.

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How to Indicate Content Overflow with React Scrollfade

Learn about a React component that dynamically fades out the bottom of an HTML element based on the scrollbar's position.

React-intl extracting messages and generating auto id

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Internationalize your React App with React Intl

What is internationalization (i18n), and why is it important? Learn how to extract messages and generate auto-id.

Open source

Is well-formatted code important today?

A set of rules of what make a code beautiful and understandable to other developers.

Open source

How we use Git commit messages

Commit messages are an important means of communication between developer team members. It is true for greenfield projects too, but essential...

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Improving UX of a digital health platform

Learn how we deliver an UX product audit and manage issues by their severity and cost.

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UX improvements for a home-monitoring health app

Learn about Product Audits and how we would improve the UX of a health app

Product audit

Prioritizing UX improvements by severity and cost

Learn how we approach UX repair tasks for a HealthTech client and how it may benefit you.

Product audit

Improve user orientation with design

In this article we show you how to improve a HealthTech app design with industry best practices.

Product audit

Help users with better visuals in your HealthTech app

Looking at an app focusing on rehabilitation, we show how to improve user experience using visual hierarchy, colors, and contrast.

Product audit

Using visual hierarchy in an EHR app crowded with data

Learn how you can help users navigate on a busy health record page with typography, colors, icons and information grouping.

Product audit

Building a platform for a VR focused digital health company

This post shows our vision for Softcare Studio to enhance its immersive VR and innovative tracking technology services.

Product audit

How to build cloud services for an IoMT company

LifeCuff Technologies want to create a cloud-based solution to retrieve real-life on patients and hardware

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Upgrading the UBERDOC application

This post focuses on UBERDOC patient to specialist telemedicine web app, playing an important role in current digital transformation in healthcare.

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Using MongoDB App Services in a React Native app

We are going to create a color set editor app where users can create their own color sets, modify their colors and share it with other users.

Software engineering

JavaScript workshop recap: monorepo with Stripe payment

In this tutorial, I would like to show the benefits of using monorepos for a full-stack project.

Software engineering

Workshop Recap: connect native modules to build an awesome music creator

Learn, how to work with Native Modules (both Java and Swift) and connect them with React Native.

Software engineering

CI/CD workshop recap: React Native automated tests with Bitrise

Build your quiz app on your own iOS or Android phone.

Software engineering

3D interactive data visualization with React and ThreeJS: Workshop

Learn how to create stunning data representations in 3D with the help of ThreeJS!

Software engineering

Build your own Christmas chat tree

Or should we say Chat-mas tree?😜 Create a working chat application in 2 hours using React, SSE (Server-Sent Events) and OneSignal on Heroku.

Software engineering

5 Ways to Connect Redux Actions

This article provides 5 ways of defining mapDispatchToProps with explanations. Great introduction to our Redux Saga Workshop!

Software engineering

Bene Studio Serverless Workshop - Calorie Counter App

This post gives an insight into Firebase Functions and Firebase Cloud Firestore using JavaScript as a follow-up of our Serverless Workshop where...

Software engineering

Kickstart your React Native app with Firebase – Cloud Firestore (Tutorial #2)

In this series we will create an iOS and Android application — called Fakestagram — with React Native, using some of Firebase services....

Software engineering

Redux-Saga To The Rescue

In this blog post, we are checking back to our 25. September Redux Saga Workshop. On 19. October we are trying out a new JS Framework for cross-platform...

Software engineering

Kickstart your React Native app with Firebase – Cloud Firestore (Tutorial #1)

In this series we will create an iOS and Android application — called Fakestagram — with React Native, using some of Firebase services....

Software engineering

Kickstart your React Native app with Firebase – Cloud Firestore (Tutorial #0)

In this series we will create an iOS and Android application — called Fakestagram — with React Native, using some of Firebase services.

Software engineering

Engage Your Users on Rare Screens

You should care about a lot of new different screens and states which aren’t planned to be in the main user flow, but occasionally happens to show up.

Software engineering

Why Should We Separate the Utility Functions?

Let’s look a process to create well tested, reusable utility function.

Software engineering

Restless Fingers vs. Restful Service

Most of us have faced the situation when your average user just keeps pressing a button on the frontend and makes subsequent calls to a backend endpoint.