FibriCheck: a case study in the global scaling of a digital health app

FibriCheck is a pioneering digital health app that enables users to quickly and simply check their heart rhythm with their smartphone and get immediate and actionable results. The app is medically certified and trusted by clinicians around the world.

Currently FibriCheck has over 700,000 users across 40 countries. More than 6 million PPG recordings have been made with the app, and more than 40,000 cases of arrhythmia have been detected – thereby helping to prevent strokes and save thousands of lives.

The speed at which Fibricheck was developed and brought to market, and the app’s continuing fast pace of growth, is made possible by use of the IEC-62304 regulatory compliant cloud infrastructure and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-safe data storage of our Extra Horizon medical Backend-as-a-Service.

The Extra Horizon platform has played a key role in helping FibriCheck meet the strict compliance issues that apply to medical software and has allowed FibriCheck to stay ahead of the curve - creating a sophisticated medical solution that pushes the conventional boundaries of digital health.

Scaling a Software-as-a-Medical-Device (SaMD) solution requires a solid foundation and an infrastructure that can grow with the app and accommodate necessary changes along the way. 

It’s essential to set up and manage the technical domains (such as development, scaling, DevOps) whilst ensuring ongoing compliance with the varying regulatory requirements of different territories.

Extra Horizon was able to provide the entire backend (or technical framework) for the FibriCheck heart rhythm monitoring app, and ensure full compliance with the many strict and complex regulations applicable to digital health solutions.

By supplying a medical backend as a service, Extra Horizon accelerated FibriCheck’s technological readiness, and by taking on most of the burden of regulatory compliance significantly reduced the level of investment risk for FibriCheck.

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