Success Story Healthcare
Biotech Leader Takes Vision Care and Treatment Mobile
This global biotech leader is a healthcare pioneer, recognized for creating innovative medicines and diagnostic tests that help millions of patients around the world.
From precise diagnosis to targeted therapy, this company differentiates itself through innovation in testing efficiency and medical value. With a strong belief that early and accurate diagnosis is essential to maintaining health, preventing disease, and finding effective treatments and cures, digital health solutions have become a huge focus.
Founded in 1896 in Switzerland
The world’s largest biotech Company
17 Biopharmaceuticals on the market
A Leading provider of cancer treatments
The company engaged Apexon and its expertise in digital healthcare in 2020 to help it validate the effectiveness of a line of therapy for vision-related diseases. The project involved quality engineering related to the development of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).
The goal was to build a companion mobile application to assist with both accurate diagnosis of vision health problems and a feedback loop to the care provider highlighting the proper line of treatment.
Of automated test case execution
In 8 weeks using mobile native framework
82% out of >200 cloud API test cases were automated
Accelerating the delivery of new digital initiatives with confidence
Creating the infrastructure and foundation to scale digital initiatives
Leveraging data and analytics to continuously improve digital delivery processes
Enable digital adoption in a quick, and agile manner
Apexon began by stabilizing the endpoints on both dev and test environments and building in encryption and other security measures.
Build digital infrastructure and foundation for enterprises to scale
Apexon team brought in Native Test Automation for the mobile apps which helped increase automated test execution time by ~40%.
Leverage data engineering to make strategic decisions and get digital right every time
Apexon deployed end-to-end testing framework and an SDK for new features which also logged audit trails.
The company had a few challenges to overcome before it could achieve the comprehensive and compliant SaMD it envisioned:
Low cost and fast development
Rapid and cost-effective development was needed, while ensuring the solution was highly scalable.
Logging test
case results
As an FDA-regulated product, test case results needed to be logged at a test case step level.
Collecting data via app
interaction from users
Relevant and accurate data on effectiveness of medication had to be collected solely through human interaction via the app.
Apexon was brought in to help develop the mobile app and to ensure end-to-end quality and security from the app to the cloud on the backend. Previous experience in this domain enabled Apexon to build in best practices and add value to this Agile project from the start.
The outputs from the engagement included:
Development support, which included ensuring that Protected Health Information (PHI) for data security was encrypted for patient data.
Implemented audio touch feedback for vision eye test assessment and dynamic test guide.
Architecture design for companion mobile application and an SDK for new features.
Architecture for logging Audit Trails and external ID authentication with backend platform.
Set up a continuous integration pipeline for faster cycle time (daily execution) and early vulnerability / bug detection.
Mobile native test automation framework for optimal test execution speed for over 600 test cases with improved reliability of test result (Reduced flakiness).
Logging of test case results at every step ensured FDA compliance.
