Fractional CTO · Healthtech
Fractional CTO for healthtech startups
Build HIPAA-compliant products without the architectural debt that strangles your roadmap.
The case
Healthtech engineering is not generic engineering.
Healthtech founders inherit a 1990s-era stack of regulations, vendors, and integration standards that nobody outside the industry takes seriously until it costs them a deal. Our founder spent years shipping AI medical devices and HIPAA-compliant patient-facing software. We know what BAAs actually require, which cloud configurations are defensible, and how to design a system that does not need to be rebuilt before your first enterprise hospital contract.
Most healthtech founders are clinicians, scientists, or operators — not engineers. A fractional CTO who has shipped regulated software fills the gap without burning early-stage cash on a $300k hire.
What we cover
Healthtech-specific decisions we help you make
Tools we use in healthtech
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Talk through your healthtech problem.
Free 30-minute technical review. Tell us where you're stuck — we'll tell you what it takes.
FAQ
Healthtech questions founders ask
Have you built HIPAA-compliant products before? +
Yes — patient-facing apps, provider tools, and AI medical-device software. We know the difference between "encrypted" and "audit-defensible," and we have built BAA review checklists into our vendor evaluations.
Should we use Redox, Particle, or build FHIR direct? +
Almost always start with an integration vendor (Redox or Particle). Direct FHIR is technically simpler but operationally brutal — every health system implements the standard slightly differently. The vendor abstraction is worth the cost until you have a multi-million-dollar deal that demands a direct connection.
Can you help us prepare for an enterprise hospital security review? +
Yes. Most reviews are 200-question spreadsheets that map to the same 20 underlying controls. We have answered enough of them to know which answers actually matter and which boxes can be checked by configuration alone.