Joe Tuan, Author at Topflight

Client Guides

Posted on Dec 30, 2025

Telehealth App Development: Everything you Need to Know

The United States is on the brink of a catastrophic shortage of doctors. It's forecast that ...

Healthcare

Posted on Dec 15, 2025

Top Healthcare Software Development Companies to Watch

Healthcare software development companies used to be the quiet plumbers of digital health; in 2025 they’re elbowing into boardrooms with a $67.7 billion market ...

Development

Posted on Dec 10, 2025

Custom Mobile Application Development 2026: Your Guide to Launching a Successful App

Creating a killer app takes more than just a great idea—it’s about execution, user experience, and strategy. If you’re looking for a custom mobile ...

Healthcare

Posted on Dec 06, 2025

Medical Record Automation: Complete Guide to EHR Automation in 2026

In the early hours of a bustling Monday morning, as the city awakens to the promise of new beginnings, a small clinic in the ...

Healthcare

Posted on Dec 05, 2025

Medical Document Automation Guide: Enhancing Efficiency and Reducing Costs

You’ve probably had this moment: trying to find a critical patient document, only to be delayed by manual processes, clunky EHR systems, and endless ...

Healthcare

Posted on Nov 29, 2025

How to Build a Women’s Health Tracking Mobile App: Go-to-Market Roadmap

Boy, is it a good time to be a woman?! When equal gender rights and diversity initiatives gain momentum. When top health apps target ...

Healthcare

Posted on Nov 17, 2025

AI in Electronic Health Records

“Show me an executive who isn’t tired of hearing about AI in electronic health records,” you might say. Fair enough. But here’s what your ...

Client Guides

Posted on Nov 11, 2025

How Much Does it Cost to Build an App in 2026: The Ultimate Guide

Today, nearly every entrepreneur is clamoring to bring their business to mobile devices. When in the market for a new mobile app, business owners ...

Healthcare

Posted on Nov 04, 2025

Automation in Revenue Cycle Management for Healthcare: Key Strategies and Benefits

Client Guides

Posted on Oct 31, 2025

The Best Healthcare App Development Companies: A Comprehensive List

Healthcare organizations face a critical decision when selecting AI consulting partners. Getting it right can transform patient care and operational efficiency. Getting it wrong ...

Client Guides

Posted on Oct 25, 2025

How to Develop a Fintech App in 2025

If there ever was a time to build a fintech app, that time is now. The market is ripe, the problems to solve are ...

Healthcare

Posted on Sep 29, 2025

How to Build a Behavioral Health Platform

Behavioral health platform development isn’t a shopping trip for video, scheduling, and messaging. It’s a commitment to own workflows, evidence, and revenue under real ...

Development

Posted on Sep 24, 2025

How Long Does It Take To Build an App in 2026

342 hours, 47 minutes and 9 seconds. You wish we had an answer that precise. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. But what we do ...

Development

Posted on Sep 19, 2025

Should I buy or build a telehealth solution?

Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, we’ve been receiving a lot of requests to build Teladoc clones. Yes, telemedicine — virtual doctor consultations via video ...

Healthcare

Posted on Sep 15, 2025

Smart EHR Optimization Strategies for Modern Healthcare Organizations

Let’s face it—if your team still curses every time they log into their EHR, you’re doing healthcare wrong in 2025. Sure, your organization invested ...

Development

Posted on Aug 10, 2025

How to Integrate a Health App with Epic EHR/EMR

If you are building a health app or integrating an existing app with Epic EHR, here's how you do that at no extra cost.

Healthcare

Posted on Aug 05, 2025

The 2025 Guide to Building High-Impact Oncology Coordination Apps

Cancer care doesn’t fail in the chemo chair; it fails in the quiet chaos in-between appointments—the lost fax, the missed referral, the untracked symptom. ...

Client Guides

Posted on Jul 16, 2025

How to Build a Fitness Tracking App in 2026 and Get the Most Out of the Fitness Hype

Why would someone want to build a fitness tracker app? Easy — to start a billion-dollar fitness company.

Healthcare

Posted on May 14, 2025

Automate Medical Notes for More Efficient Documentation

Let’s cut to the chase. You’re here because manual clinical documentation is a drag on your operations, your clinicians, and potentially, your bottom line. ...

Awards

Posted on May 12, 2025

We Made Clutch’s Top 5 — And It All Started With a Radiologist’s Text Message

So, this happened: Topflight just ranked in the Top 5 for Website Development & Web Design in Clutch’s 2025 Best-of Awards. (Here’s the press ...

Client Guides

Posted on May 01, 2025

The Definitive Guide to Telemedicine: Bringing a Quiet Revolution to Value-Based Care

The COVID-19 pandemic has made telemedicine the status quo healthcare delivery model. A model that fosters doctor-patient and doctor-doctor communications via telecom technologies. In ...

Healthcare

Posted on Apr 18, 2025

How to Build an AI-Powered Radiology Platform That Speeds Up Diagnosis Without Replacing Doctors

The Radiology Crisis: Specialist Shortage vs. Annual Volume Growth Radiologists are facing a growing crisis. Imaging volumes are skyrocketing, yet workforce growth is projected ...

Healthcare

Posted on Apr 05, 2025

Choose an EHR System: The Ultimate Guide

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare technology, knowing how to choose an EHR system is more crucial than ever. For key decision-makers at ...

Healthcare

Posted on Mar 24, 2025

Conversational AI for the Healthcare Industry: The Future of Medicine

The evolution of AI, machine learning, and big data analytics has propelled healthcare apps beyond conventional limits, providing advanced tools for diagnostics, monitoring, and ...

Healthcare

Posted on Mar 17, 2025

How AI Healthcare Implementation Improves Diagnostic Accuracy and Speeds Up Disease Detection

Diagnostic errors are an inevitable aspect of modern medicine. The human body’s complexity, combined with the subtle ways diseases present themselves, creates inherent challenges. ...

Development

Posted on Mar 07, 2025

Progressive Web Apps vs. Native Apps in 2026: The Complete Guide

You may not realize it, but there’s an earth-shattering debate raging all across the web right now that is shaking the very foundations of ...

Client Guides

Posted on Dec 24, 2024

How To Find An App Developer When Outsourcing Your App Development Projects

So you have an idea for making an app. Should you outsource mobile app development or hire an app developer internally? For starters, finding the ...

Healthcare

Posted on Dec 16, 2024

TEFCA Unlocks Interoperability: How Healthcare Software Can Use TEFCA to Connect to Customers

“We need to integrate with Epic.” Five words that make every healthcare startup founder wince. You’ve been there – watching your sales cycle stretch ...

Client Guides

Posted on Nov 24, 2024

Patient Journey Mapping: How-to Guide

I had to reschedule a dentist’s appointment the other day, which I set up via WhatsApp. So I sent them a message asking to ...

Healthcare

Posted on Nov 12, 2024

Surescripts Integration Main Steps: Unpacking the Core Process

In the dynamic landscape of healthcare IT, Surescripts integration stands as a game-changer. It revolutionizes the way data is exchanged across different platforms, making ...

Development

Posted on Oct 24, 2024

How to Create a Minimum Viable Product: A Guide for Modern App Owners

Whoever suggests you to build an MVP to test your assumptions is going after your money. Yes, many minimum viable products found success in ...

Healthcare

Posted on Oct 12, 2024

What Are Some Problems In Healthcare That Can Be Solved with Apps?

Many tech entrepreneurs complain about the difficulty of finding a problem to solve with an app. The best and most sustainable apps are always ...

Mobile Apps

Posted on Sep 10, 2024

React Native vs Swift in 2025: Choosing the Best platform for iOS App Development

A question we often get is whether React Native or Swift is the better platform for iOS app development. Both platforms can be used ...

Client Guides

Posted on Aug 06, 2024

How App Founders Can Avoid Exorbitant App Store Commissions

For many app founders and entrepreneurs, monetization is the linchpin of their app’s success. You’ve poured your heart, soul, and resources into developing a ...

Client Guides

Posted on Jul 24, 2024

From Lagging to Leading: 10x AI Health App Performance

In the realm of healthcare technology, setting up the perfect architecture for an AI health app right from the start is nearly impossible. The ...

Healthcare

Posted on Jul 16, 2024

Computer Vision in Healthcare Applications: Big Changes Coming

Today, we can spin up a mobile app and start training with a virtual coach providing real-time feedback personalized to our performance. Or we ...

Healthcare

Posted on Jul 02, 2024

The Health App Founder’s Dilemma: Achieving Traction Without Over-Investing

Oh, the dreadful process of gathering quotes from health app developers—it’s enough to drive anyone up the wall. You end up with estimates ranging ...

Healthcare

Posted on May 01, 2024

How To Use No-Code To Deliver A Healthcare App

Coding is hard. Coding a HIPAA-compliant, efficient, and genuinely helpful healthcare app that actually improves the lives of your patients or your service providers? ...

Healthcare

Posted on Apr 23, 2024

E-Prescription App Development: Integrations, Development Guide and More

On-demand shopping, Netflix, and Uber have transformed our lives forever. The instant ...

Client Guides

Posted on Apr 16, 2024

Mobile Application Design Process: Step-by-Step Guidelines on UI/UX in 2025

As a founder, time is your most valuable resource. While a simple online search will lead you to a plethora of guidelines and tips ...

Monetization

Posted on Mar 14, 2024

How to Monetize an App in 2026: What Many Startups Miss

Please ignore this post if you’re only looking to learn about the well-known app monetization strategies: paid apps subscriptions freemium, in-app purchases, etc. Cause ...

Healthcare

Posted on Mar 10, 2024

Blockchain in the Medical Field: The Good, The Better, The Best

When I read blogs about blockchain technology in the healthcare industry, I get mad. No, seriously. Marketing people with little to no understanding of ...

Client Guides

Posted on Nov 30, 2023

ChatGPT Almost Derailed Your Healthcare AI App? Here’s Your Next Step

In the fast-paced world of AI and machine learning, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has emerged as a game-changer, revolutionizing the healthcare application landscape. Yet, recent shifts ...

Healthcare

Posted on Nov 23, 2023

Headless EHR: Transforming Healthcare with Innovative Technology

Imagine having the power to change the healthcare ecosystem but constantly feeling held back by the technology meant to help you. As a digital ...

Client Guides

Posted on Nov 23, 2023

What Does OpenAI’s Latest ChatGPT Update Mean for Healthcare Apps?

The buzz around OpenAI’s ChatGPT is hard to ignore. The latest update has taken the technology world by storm, with its potential to transform ...

Entrepreneurial Stories

Posted on Aug 03, 2022

Recession Battle Cry

Winter is coming. Even the most optimistic of us realize and accept that we’re in a recession. We at Topflight have certainly been the ...

Awards

Posted on Jun 01, 2022

Walker Tracker Honored as Gold Stevie® Award Winner 2022

Our internal motto at Topflight Apps is to build software that empowers people. Fortunately, most products we work on fully align with this modus ...

Entrepreneurial Stories

Posted on Apr 07, 2022

How Can We Build Healthcare Apps That Improve Patient Care?

Beneath the facade of high digital healthcare adoption rates in the U.S. lies a troubling reality: mHealth application developers are making headlines, but they ...

Development

Posted on Dec 22, 2021

Agile Project Management for Mobile Application Development: How to Release Successful Products in 2025

Agile has turned 20 in 2021. Has it made the world a better place? Think about all the startups of today and the last ...

Development

Posted on Jul 28, 2021

The Best Web Application Framework for Your Website

When you’re building a new web or mobile app, there are really two factors to consider when deciding what framework to use: which tools ...

Development

Posted on Jul 14, 2021

Deep Learning and Machine Learning in Healthcare: Use Cases, Examples

So, you’ve got a great idea for a healthcare app. You’ve identified a need, recruited a rockstar healthcare app development company, and maybe even ...

Development

Posted on Apr 14, 2021

How to Hire Mobile App Developers: Comprehensive Guide

After Apple’s disastrous launch of MobileMe, Steve Jobs told the responsible developers they “should hate each other for having let each other down.” The ...

Mobile Apps

Posted on Apr 07, 2021

How to Choose a Tech Stack: Down-to-Earth Guide for Owners

Today, every business looking to win willy-nilly taps into the tech sector. Companies build software to streamline their processes, perfect user experiences, and seize ...

Development

Posted on Feb 10, 2021

Mobile Web vs. Mobile App: Which is the Best Choice?

So you’re wondering whether you should start with a mobile app vs. a website or both. Of course, in an ideal world, where budgets ...

Development

Posted on Jan 13, 2021

Mobile-First Web Design: The Only Way to Develop. Or Is It?

If a product manager or app agency has been sweet-talking you into adopting a mobile-first development strategy for your digital product, and you’ve finally ...

Client Guides

Posted on Nov 11, 2020

Mobile App Quality Assurance Guide 2025: Strategies, Tools, Process, Best Practices

You’ve validated, designed and developed your app. Kudos! Launch time? Not Yet. According to a study, “The top reason why people deleted apps after ...

Client Guides

Posted on Aug 03, 2020

Leveraging Figma for Prototyping, Mockups and Wireframes

When clients ask us how they can save money, or better yet, how they can ensure they validate what they are building first, our ...

Client Guides

Posted on Jun 16, 2020

How To Create A Mobile Ordering App Like Chick-Fil-A

As a restaurant owner, it can be overwhelming to manage the hoards of ‘hangry’ customers that flock in at peak hours. We know that ...

Client Guides

Posted on Nov 24, 2019

How To Build a Calorie Counter App like MyFitnessPal

With calorie counter apps raking in millions per month and the global sports apps market promising to reach 2 billion USD by 2023, it’s ...

Client Guides

Posted on Oct 12, 2019

How to Collect Healthcare Data For Your Mobile Apps

Almost every healthcare application requires users to enter personally identifiable data. Surveys, activity trackers, biometric scanners, electronic medical records, and face-to-face consults usually require ...

Client Guides

Posted on Jul 31, 2019

How To Build A Loan Calculator Using Machine Learning

How do we use machine learning to build a loan calculator that benefits lenders and recipients? Let’s start with the basics: Buying a home ...

Healthcare

Posted on Jul 23, 2019

Plug & Play Solutions for Building your mHealth Applications

Building your mHealth app is a very exciting and exacting process. But how can you add functions to your app in a cost-effective and ...

Development

Posted on May 30, 2019

The Ultimate Guide to Building The Best mHealth Apps in 2019

There is probably no better industry to exemplify the explosion of potential in mobile apps than healthcare. With the potential to do so much ...

Design

Posted on May 17, 2019

Setting Up User Testing To Validate a Design Prototype

Iterative Strategy Execution to improving Product KPIs Working from an existing product: Capture current metrics How are those being captured? Quantitative: Google Analytics? 3rd ...

Development

Posted on Apr 28, 2019

How To Not Get Burned By Outsourcing | Step 5

Have you been burned by app developers who couldn’t see your vision? Don’t get burned by outsourcing to a developer or development team who ...

Development

Posted on Mar 25, 2019

Build Apps For Your Users, Not Yourself

I’ll be honest with you: application developers are making headlines, but they aren’t making much headway. As a long-time app developer and entrepreneur myself, ...

Healthcare

Posted on Mar 08, 2019

Topflight Apps Soars Above the Competition as a Leading App Developer in Los Angeles

Top app developer in Los Angeles Founded in 2015, we are a product design company with an adept team consisting of the best UI/UX ...

Development

Posted on Jan 23, 2019

Getting the Most Out of Your Fixed-Price App Development Contract

Fixed price contracts are one of those, “Clients are from mars, developers are from Venus” topics. In my experience, most clients are advertising on a ...

Client Guides

Posted on Jan 23, 2019

How to Get the Most Out of Hourly App Development Contracts

For most, a fixed-price contract is the way to go. Fixed price, no over-spending! Still, in our experience, there is more than one good reason to seriously ...

Development

Posted on Jan 15, 2019

Six Tips On Using Customer Feedback to Iterate Your Mobile App

In today’s B2C environment, listening to customer feedback is a tick on every app development checklist. In fact, most mobile app initiatives have a ...

Client Guides

Posted on Jan 14, 2019

Healthcare Mobile App Development Trends to Watch

For those of us who have been in the web development industry long enough, the AI Hype for healthcare is nothing new. Researchers have ...

Development

Posted on Jan 10, 2019

Why I Can’t Stop Making Healthcare Apps After My First Startup Nearly Broke Me

“What’s the point?!” It’s a question I found myself asking during a moribund business school lecture; the question that got me started on the path ...

Development

Posted on Nov 30, 2018

Why You Shouldn’t Develop Your Own App, and Other Horror Stories

So, you’ve got an idea for an app! Hey, that’s great. The idea is the first step—it’s the catalyst that brings everything else together. ...

Awards

Posted on Oct 05, 2018

Topflight Apps Named a Top B2B Service Provider in California

Here at Topflight Apps, we elevate brands through innovative and insightful technical solutions. From UI/UX design to full-stack development services, we make products ...

Healthcare

Posted on Jul 06, 2018

Security Concerns for Healthcare Apps for Patients

The healthcare industry is currently exploding with the use of mobile applications for both providers and their patients. This has given rise to concerns ...

Healthcare

Posted on Jul 02, 2018

Mobile Apps for Healthcare: Their Impact on Patient Satisfaction

The healthcare industry has embraced mobile development and it is revolutionizing how doctors and patients interact. It is extremely easy to find flaws with ...

Development

Posted on Jun 29, 2018

Mobile App Development Trends

Mobile app development has continued to explode as smartphones continue to infiltrate all areas of society. The smartphone has become an extension of our ...

Development

Posted on Jun 22, 2018

Why Page Load Time Matters

Page load time is a critical aspect of web development for several reasons. Slower page load time results in page abandonment and lower conversion ...

Development

Posted on Jun 15, 2018

Angular App | SPA With Angular for Easy Maintenance

Angular has become the choice of many web developers when they create a single page application (SPA). There are many reasons why this is ...

Development

Posted on Jun 11, 2018

The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Development

WordPress development has grown exponentially in popularity. This is in large part because the platform itself is free and is extremely easy to customize. ...

Development

Posted on May 28, 2018

Why You Should Use a Single Page App

Slowly but surely, web applications are replacing desktop applications. This is because they are easier to use, easier to update and are not bound ...

Development

Posted on May 24, 2018

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: AI For Non Moonshot Healthcare Apps

Are you hoping to exploit artificial intelligence to become the Uber of healthcare? Perhaps your ambition is to build the next moonshot that disrupts ...

Healthcare

Posted on Feb 28, 2018

How Patient Portals and EHR Incentives Help Deliver Value-Based Care

Wouldn’t healthcare be better if your healthcare organization could deliver care efficiently and optimize value by emphasizing patient engagement? Our healthcare team certainly thinks ...

Development

Posted on Feb 06, 2018

Guide to React Native UI Design

React Native remains one of the most popular cross-platform app development tools. Aside from its growing global community and innovative libraries, React Native has ...

Client Guides

Posted on Jan 23, 2018

HIPAA Compliance: The Biggest Barrier To Healthcare Innovation

When HIPAA was made law, there was no technological advancement in the health sector the likes of what we have today. There were no ...

Development

Posted on Jan 23, 2018

What Successful Project Management Means To Me

The simplest definition of a successful software project manager is a person who manages to deliver products on time and on budget. Sounds straightforward ...

Development

Posted on Jan 23, 2018

Why Do I Even Need A Project Manager?

I’m writing this because I find myself spending a lot more time lately explaining to potential clients what development project managers actually do, why ...

Development

Posted on Jan 23, 2018

Building The Perfect Mobile App Is A Journey, Not A Sprint

Here are 6 steps to go from an idea to an app that gets noticed and used by millions of people. 1. VALIDATE THE IDEA Validate ...

Client Guides

Posted on Jan 23, 2018

Should I Pick A Digital Agency Or A Freelancer for My MVP?

So you’ve decided to create your MVP or outsource some of your web or mobile app development projects? By now, you may be wondering ...

Development

Posted on Jan 23, 2018

How A/B Testing Can Optimize Results

Merriam-Webster defines an entrepreneur as, “a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money.” It further ...