SimplePractice
A private practice, in your pocket
The HIPAA-compliant companion app for SimplePractice — the platform more than 250,000 health and wellness practitioners run their businesses on. Scheduling, session notes, secure messaging, documents, and payments, anywhere.
- Industry
- Digital health / SaaS
- Services
- Mobile development, Security engineering, HIPAA compliance
- Stack
- Android (Kotlin), Biometric auth, Encrypted storage
- Year
- 2023
The challenge
Clinicians don't run their practices at a desk — they run them between sessions, from hallways and waiting rooms. Putting protected health information on a personal phone raises the stakes: the app has to mirror a deep cloud platform while defending every screen with medical-grade security, without ever feeling like security software.
The approach
- 01
The full admin day, mobile: scheduling, session notes, document upload and sharing, invoicing, and payment processing in one focused clinician app.
- 02
Security engineered in layers — biometric access, in-app passcode, bank-level encryption, and quick-swipe privacy protection for opening the app around other people.
- 03
Client communication kept inside the HIPAA boundary with secure messaging, instead of leaking into SMS and email.
- 04
Companion-app discipline: a fast, focused mobile mirror of the cloud platform, built for the in-between moments where practices actually get managed.
The outcome
The clinician app ships on Android and iOS as the mobile arm of a platform trusted by more than 250,000 practitioners. Building inside a HIPAA-regulated codebase at that scale is the reliability discipline we bring to every product we take on.
Context
Production Android work at SimplePractice, 2023 — the leading practice-management platform for health and wellness professionals.
Android development on the clinician app — the HIPAA-compliant mobile arm of the platform
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