Allina Health: 4 HIPAA-safe apps, built to scale

The challenge

Allina Health, one of the Upper Midwest’s largest health systems, wanted to give patients modern, reliable apps without exposing protected health information to unnecessary risk. Building patient-facing software in healthcare means engineering for HIPAA from the first line of code, and doing it across both major mobile platforms at once.

What we did

Tarmac embedded a senior team directly into Allina Health’s organization, working as part of their team rather than at arm’s length. We built and scaled four native apps in Kotlin and Swift, integrating with MyChart, and adopted a HIPAA-safe architecture that keeps patient data out of scope on our side. Native iOS and Android development gave patients a fast, dependable experience, while the Tarmac 10 kept quality and communication tight across the program.

The results

Allina Health launched and scaled four patient-facing apps, delivered in a model designed to protect patient data throughout. The embedded partnership gave Allina the senior mobile capacity to keep improving the experience over time.

Chris DuFresne, VP of Experience and Marketing Operations, said the team “were able to assimilate into our team to help us build and scale four incredible apps.”