Whether you’re a clinician, founder or public sector leader, we’ll help you combine evidence, design and technology into an app that delivers real-world impact.
Bring your healthcare vision to life.
The Push-Up Challenge mobile app
User engagement
Scalable platform
Measurable impact
GoShare web app
Human-centred
Trusted guidance
Scaled impact
S-Check mobile app
Human-centred
Trusted guidance
Impact
Aeromedical Rapid web app
Efficiency
Safety
Impact
Guidelines Host mobile app
Human-centred
Trusted guidance
Impact
Explore how we can help you build an app that transforms care, streamlines systems and delivers measurable outcomes.
We start with the real problem – not assumptions. Through discovery and rapid prototyping, we test ideas with clinicians, patients and other users to generate evidence that guides product decisions and builds stakeholder confidence.
Healthcare products don’t exist in isolation. We design with the broader system in mind, anticipating interoperability, data flow, governance and operational constraints to reduce risk and ensure smoother adoption.
Privacy, security and governance are embedded from the start. We build with Australian healthcare and public-sector requirements in mind, supporting approvals, audits and long-term trust for clinical users and decision-makers.
Great health products are adopted, not just launched. We plan for procurement, stakeholder alignment and long-term scale, ensuring clear delivery, smoother approvals and sustainable growth from pilot to platform.
Clutch.co regularly ranks us as a top app developer in Australia and Melbourne, based on verified client outcomes.
Seb Baird,
Digital Product Manager,
NCCRED"We’re really happy that we partnered with Wave. Through the pitch and procurement process they helped us to scope out what functionality and architecture we actually needed, and translated technical concepts into plain language really well."
Dr Titus Nasi,
Head of Paediatrics,
National Referral Hospital, Solomon Islands“I use the Guidelines Host app very frequently, both for patient treatment and reference in nursing and doctor training. It’s the most affordable and easy access option for all the doctors, nurses and the Ministry of Health.”
A quality mobile app built in Australia will cost between $50,000–$250,000+. A startup looking to develop an app with a basic feature set for an MVP is likely to cost between $50,000–$100,000. Businesses wanting to digitise internal processes or integrate with other systems should expect to pay $100,000-$250,000 for an app.
There are six factors that will influence the cost of building an app. These are:
You can find more information in our blog post – “How much does it cost to build an app?”
A technical proof-of-concept (POC) is a group of activities that our app developers undertake to assess the technical feasibility of a particular aspect of your app. One example where we might recommend a POC is a bespoke integration. Another example is where we would be using technologies or devices in unique or novel ways. A POC allows us to understand opportunities and constraints, and identify options, before progressing too far with app design and/or app development activities. Example folios where Wave Digital has completed technical proof-of-concepts are Newtracs and the Medical Director integration for the GoShare Healthcare platform.
A prototype in our industry refers to a design activity. The goal of an app prototype is to bring your product to life so that you can show it to potential customers, investors or other interested stakeholders. It may also form part of a business case. There is no coding involved in producing a prototype. Instead, our designers would use one of a range of prototyping tools to transform the app interfaces into a clickable prototype. An app animation, which is essentially a video of the app, is an alternate approach.
A minimum viable product (MVP) is a tool for testing assumptions – about your app customers, product and market – as quickly and inexpensively as possible. It’s designed to validate key assumptions, test market appetite, and gather early feedback with the least effort and investment required. An MVP is a vehicle for learning, not simply a product release with fewer features. Rather than building out a full-featured solution based on assumptions, the MVP is focused on learning from real users and improving the product iteratively.
Creating an app prototype can take anywhere between 3 weeks to a few months. The length of the process is generally influenced by two things. The first is the client’s availability to collaborate during the design process. Our app designers rely on feedback to ensure concepts are in line with the client’s vision. At Wave, we understand that most startup founders are juggling multiple commitments and adjust the timing of our processes to fit in with their availability. The other factor is the number of design iterations that have been included in the project.
With users abandoning most new apps after the first or second use*, we wrote this article to help those with brilliant app ideas understand what needs to be done to lay the foundations for a successful app.
It’s also critical that you take the time needed to fully validate your app idea, rather than take the ‘build it and they will come’ approach. You can learn more in detail about this in our latest blog article.
* Statistics found within the linked article
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