Medical Device Software Development

Medical Device Software Expertise Delivered.

Orthogonal’s medical device software development services encompass the full product lifecycle, including user experience design, human factors, requirements definition, risk analysis, Agile software development, and verification and validation. We’ll help you build and evolve game-changing medical device software, SaMD and connected devices faster than the competition. 

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What Our Clients Say

“Applying modern engineering techniques to the development of SaMD is no easy feat. Orthogonal’s approach to blending these domains helped Tandem accelerate our product innovation cycle and outputs” Larkin Lowrey, Senior Director of Software Engineering for Digital Health, Tandem Diabetes Larkin Lowrey Senior Director of Software Engineering, Tandem Diabetes Care
“From day one, Orthogonal helped us methodically achieve regulatory quality. Today, our QMS is core to our DNA. It’s a strategic asset in the highly complex and competitive DTx space.” Danny Bernstein Headshot Danny Bernstein Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder, metaMe Health

We help clients get the most out of medical device software.

With over a decade of experience, Orthogonal is uniquely qualified to help you take advantage of the rapidly expanding opportunities presented by digital technologies. We enable you to not just build the right medical device software faster, but to evolve faster and scale faster than your competitors.

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Ready to Accelerate?

Partner with us to match Agile development methods with modern technologies – and accelerate your medical device software pipeline.

Software is in our DNA.

Unlike other companies in our field, which have added “software” to their repertoires over time, software has always been at Orthogonal’s core – and our track record of work and thought leadership is a testament to that.

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Our Strengths

Trust our decade of experience
integrating medical device software
and Agile.

  • ISO 13485-certified and IEC 62304 and ISO 14971-compliant quality management system.
  • FDA, EU MDR, UK MDR, DiGA and GDPR regulatory experience.
  • AI algorithm development and data case management. 
  • Application of Agile methods to medical device software and SaMD.
  • Integration of UX and Human Factors into Agile processes. 
  • Automation of Verification & Validation. 
  • Industry leadership in shaping regulations and guidance for Agile, cloud computing and SaMD. 
  • Software for Class I, Class II, Class III and Class III Implanted medical devices. 
  • Bluetooth medical device connectivity.

Who We Work With

Venture-Backed Startups

Leverage our deep SaMD and connected device experience to build game-changing medical device systems.

Medical Device Companies

We’ve set the standard on how to continually evolve your product to deepen patient engagement and stay ahead of the competition.

Pharmaceutical Companies

Rapidly scale your product pipeline of SaMD and Digital Therapeutics that engage patients and demonstrably improve outcomes.

Consumer Enterprises

You create awesome products. We enable you to bring that success into the highly regulated MedTech world.

What We Develop – Software for Connected Medical Devices

We’ve developed medical device software for Class II and Class III connected medical devices, with functionality including remote patient monitoring, remote patient care delivery via smart therapeutics (insulin pumps, nerve stimulators) and point of care in vitro diagnostics (IVDRs). 

Class I

Low risk: Mobile companion apps and cloud services for medical devices

Class II

Medium risk: Continuous glucose monitors, wearable ECG and vital sign monitors, externally-applied nerve stimulators, smart pens and smart inhalers

Class III

High risk: Integrated insulin pump and CGM systems

Active Implantables

High risk: Pacemakers and implanted nerve stimulators

What We Develop – Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)

Orthogonal has deep experience developing SaMD products that take the form of mobile apps, web apps, desktop apps cloud computing, AI algorithms and SDKs for integration to 3rd party platforms. Our past projects include Digital Therapeutics (DTx), digital diagnostics and digital biomarkers.

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Ready to Accelerate?

Partner with us to match Agile development methods with modern technologies – and accelerate your medical device software pipeline.

Our Medical Device Software Development Process

Our Agile processes are designed for efficiency so you can deliver software faster and with higher quality.

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Phase 0: Inception: A series of workshops that lay the technical, design and quality foundations of the medical device software and get the team working together. 

Phase 1a: Iterative Design and Human Factors: Brings the medical device software design from storyboard to high fidelity screens, with highly integrated user testing to add in the user’s voice, needs and preferences early in the process, as well as meet human factors compliance requirements. 

Phase 1b: Technical Elaboration: Firms up key architectural aspects of the medical device software system and addresses key domains such as cybersecurity, risk analysis, quality and regulatory.

Phase 2: Development Under Design Controls: The Agile process for bringing medical device software to life. Sprints are typically two weeks and follow a cadence of baking, grooming, planning and execution.  

Phase 3: Software Verification: Performs formal verification activities as outlined in the Software Verification Strategy. These activities are performed iteratively in the specification and development phases, resulting in a faster final verification for the medical device software.

Phase 4: Design Transfer and Support for System Testing: Provides support for the final User Acceptance Test (UAT) and transfer of medical device software source code, build files, quality documentation and any needed knowledge transfer.  

Phase 5: Evolution: Incorporates real world feedback into rapid release cycles that propels medical device software further and faster than competitors. 

Case Studies

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EBT: External Nerve Stimulation for Overactive Bladder

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Neurostimulation Device for Dry Eye Disease

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Continuous ECG Monitoring with Nanosensors

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PhysIQ: Ambulatory Patient Monitoring

Ready to Accelerate?

Partner with us to match Agile development methods with modern technologies – and accelerate your medical device software pipeline.

Taming the complexity of connected device technology.

We’ve spent a decade refining our approach to building complex SaMD and medical device software, so we can focus on meeting the unique technical challenges of your solution.

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Tackling the most complicated
connected device problems.

Orthogonal has developed dozens of medical device mobile applications for both iOS and Android, from standalone SaMD to continuous glucose monitors to device control apps for Class III active implantables. Working with both native development and cross-platform development tools, such as Flutter and React Native, we ensure support for a wide range of mobile devices in an ever-shifting BYOD environment.

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Using modern techniques to create apps that empower patients and clinicians.

Orthogonal builds modern web applications using React and Flutter – from simple dashboards, to multi-layered apps with rendering layers, domain logic and multiple types of users. We apply clean architecture principles to ensure separation of concerns, resulting in client-side applications that are robust, testable, flexible and maintainable.

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Ready to Accelerate?

Partner with us to match Agile development methods with modern technologies – and accelerate your medical device software pipeline.

Putting background communications
front-and-center.

Orthogonal specializes in developing mobile applications and cloud services that connect to implanted and wearable devices using Bluetooth, cellular and NFC technologies. With our extensive library of corner cases, testing methods and mitigations, we get the most out of wireless communication, maximizing reliability and speed while minimizing power consumption.

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Industry-leading cloud expertise.

Orthogonal has extensive experience applying techniques like auto-scaling by tier, self-healing and health and performance checks for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We balance performance, scalability and data security with regulatory and standards compliance. We collaborate with the FDA, major cloud providers and other medical device companies in shaping cloud regulations and guidance; we are co-chairs of the AAMI working group developing Technical Information Report (TIR) #115.

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Improving patient outcomes
using real world data.

Orthogonal has developed a number of FDA-cleared AI and machine learning algorithms – and we’re involved in the ongoing development of AI-related standards. We use technologies and tools such as Tensor Flow and Tensor Flow Lite, data case management, signal processing analysis, OpenCV and digital signal processing. We undertake algorithm development to create algorithms for feature identification, multidimensional signal processing, cardiac signal analysis and general-purpose signal processing.

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Streamlining interoperability
to make solutions more powerful.

Integration of SaMD with EMR systems is a critical part of the care delivery process. Orthogonal leverages middleware solutions that provide single uniform endpoints to different EMR instances to streamline integration. We’ve built out high-performance cloud infrastructure for mobile and web apps using FHIR, DICOM and SMART on FHIR for seamless and secure interoperability. For FHIR data storage, we tailor our approach to the platform: Cloud Healthcare API and FHIR stores for GCP; FHIR Service on Azure Health Data Services; and FHIR Works on AWS.

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Staying ahead of evolving threats
in an increasingly interconnected world.

Cybersecurity is an ongoing activity that is woven into Orthogonal’s product development lifecycle. Our process is compliant with the FDA’s pre- and post-market cybersecurity guidance for medical devices, as well as AAMI TIR57:2016, ISO/IEC 27001 and the NIST framework, and continues to evolve along with the SaMD ecosystem and regulatory landscape.

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What Our Clients Say

“Orthogonal brought us the expertise we needed to ensure our technology platform met the high standards of the FDA. Through their involvement, we absolutely accelerated our pace through the regulatory process. ” Gary Conkright CEO of PhysIQ
“We needed a SaMD partner equally versed in medical device software development and modern software engineering. Orthogonal clearly crosses that bar, and has been an invaluable asset for Boehringer Ingelheim Digital.” janet maldonado headshot Janet Maldonado Head of Engineering, Boehringer Ingelheim Digital
“Applying modern engineering techniques to the development of SaMD is no easy feat. Orthogonal’s approach to blending these domains helped Tandem accelerate our product innovation cycle and outputs” Larkin Lowrey, Senior Director of Software Engineering for Digital Health, Tandem Diabetes Larkin Lowrey Senior Director of Software Engineering, Tandem Diabetes Care