Direct answer
Healthcare software development covers patient-facing applications, telemedicine, electronic health records and the operational systems clinics run on. The engineering is shaped by three things: patient data carries strict privacy obligations, systems must exchange data with others, and clinical mistakes have consequences software elsewhere does not.
Health technology
Software used in the delivery or administration of care, including records, scheduling, remote consultation and patient communication. Most of it has to interoperate with systems it does not control.
What shapes the engineering
Healthcare constrains architecture in ways general product work does not.
Privacy obligations
Patient data carries legal duties over access, retention, residency and disclosure.
Interoperability
Exchanging records with other systems, which in practice means standards and their variations across vendors.
Clinical safety
Interfaces read under time pressure, and defaults that fail in the safe direction.
Continuity
Clinics cannot stop. Migration and release have to be planned around that.
Where agents can and cannot help
Administrative load in healthcare is a real problem and much of it is agentic-shaped: scheduling, intake, coding, correspondence. Clinical decisions are a different category. Our position is that agents draft and route, and a clinician decides, with the trail retained.
Frequently asked
This is the practice the AI work is built on
We still take this work on. If the system you are describing should also be making decisions on its own, start with the AI side.