Patient centricity is of critical importance for the entire global healthcare ecosystem because it drives the motivation for patients to participate in their own medical care delivery, resulting in better outcomes. Have you gone to the doctor recently? Or maybe to the ER? Haven’t you experienced delays and a lack of quality in attention and in delivering medical care? Or perhaps a lack of empathy, like you weren’t a priority? If you have, you’re not alone. It’s no secret that medical…

The software development industry isn’t immune to change. It’s one of the most dynamic industries, and the State of Software Development 2021 report is a testament to the trends and changes it has undergone this past year. No doubt, 2020 was a year of unparalleled disruption for everyone. The pandemic upended every industry, and businesses worldwide had to develop new ways–and sometimes improvise–to connect with their employees and customers to stay afloat. The world saw the rapid proliferation of remote-first work environments, and countless organizations underwent digital…

Every groundbreaking app idea needs proper funding to drive it forward. Startups and developers must understand the right ways to get funding for their ideas and where and what their options are. Getting a unique idea for a mobile app can be pretty exciting. And why shouldn’t it be? Having a chance to dig into that $50 billion market is a thrilling prospect, especially for startups seeking new business opportunities. However, it is common for people to think that the development process…

The responsibility of developers towards their apps doesn’t stop at deployment. Assessing an app’s success after its release is just as important as any other stage of the development process and helps in evaluating its success. Just over 12 years ago, Apple’s App Store launched with 500 apps. We dove into the era of mobile technologies, and ever since, the world has been spiraling towards an app-centered life. Whether this is a good thing or not is up for debate, but what we can’t argue with…

At Foonkie Monkey, we’ve established our remote-first work culture for several years now, and we understand its importance and its benefits for both our company and our employees. For some years now, and thanks to modern technology’s global availability, the global work environment has reaped remote work’s benefits, and some companies have even started to encourage it. However, this past year, and thanks to COVID, this transition upended business operations abruptly and caused enterprises to send their employees…

User stories are a development tool that helps us understand your audience better to know what we’re building, why, and who it’s for. They are an essential part of any relevant and competitive IT product. So, you’ve made it this far in your company’s incursion into the digital world, and you can’t wait to reap the benefits your new app will bring to your business. Now all you have to do is lay back and wait, right? Well, not quite. It’s tempting to think that…

As with any other business venture, app developers must keep their eye on their product’s critical legal considerations and implications. These considerations are essential to structure the app properly and keep it running successfully. By now, it’s no secret that apps run our lives; they are everywhere, and the demand for better and faster mobile solutions is increasing widely. Mobile technologies provide unique ways to access goods and services, from buying groceries to getting medical care. As a result, and since late 2016, mobile…

Plaid helps people connect their bank accounts to financial apps and other digital services. By enabling apps to connect with users’ bank accounts, Plaid makes mobile transactions more accessible and safer. It powers more than 3,000 FinTech services and connects with more than 11,000 financial institutions in the US and Europe. As modern technologies sneak their way into our lives, dependency on IT systems for our day-to-day functioning is becoming the norm. From working and shopping to healthcare delivery, mobile and web solutions have become almost as fundamental to our everyday lives as breathing. Even though this phenomenon has been happening…

We created a secure, efficient, and robust mobile and web solution for a banking corporation with transactional issues. Our solution helped users perform cross-border transactions between Latinamerica and the US swiftly and safely. It’s no secret: nowadays, the FinTech industry is one of the most vulnerable and attackable fields. In 2019 alone, the FinTech industry had 352,771 exposed sensitive files, and the financial services sector was the most attacked, with 21% of the overall exposed data that year. As banking technology is becoming…