A surgeon-founded team came to Mindbowser with a concept, not a product: a case built around an iPad mini that replaces a full endoscopy tower. We worked as the technology partner from idea through launch, building Bluetooth hardware control, encrypted live video, offline-first storage, and NPI-gated clinician access into one platform.
Talk to Our TeamA surgeon-founded medtech startup building a portable, cloud-connected endoscopy platform to replace the conventional endoscopy tower.
End-to-end product build: Bluetooth hardware control, encrypted live video, offline-first storage, NPI-gated access, and a separate web analytics layer.
iOS (native), React, Python, OpenTok, Bluetooth LE (RFduino), HIPAA-compliant AWS S3
Launched
Mindbowser took the founders' idea for a tower-free endoscopy system and built it end to end, as one iOS application backed by HIPAA-compliant cloud infrastructure.
The platform had to be HIPAA compliant from day one, not retrofitted later. That requirement shaped almost everything else on the list.
Physicians needed to control LED intensity, camera settings, and the pump over Bluetooth, simple enough to use without fumbling through menus mid-scope.
Physicians needed live video conferencing so an attending could supervise a procedure remotely, joining from iOS or web without matching devices or operating systems.
Patient records needed secure cloud storage with temporary, limited sharing, and the whole system had to keep working in areas with low or intermittent internet, not just fail gracefully.
The real attack surface wasn't Bluetooth pairing or the video codec. It was confirming the person on the other end of a live procedure feed is a licensed clinician, not just someone who found the app.
A native iOS app for the hardware and procedure workflow, paired with a separate React and Python web layer the client uses to upload and analyze structured procedure data.
We built a professional iOS application with full Bluetooth Low Energy integration through an RFduino microcontroller, giving physicians direct control over LED and pump settings from the same interface they were already using to view the procedure.
We evaluated several tools for secure, real-time video before landing on OpenTok, then spent weeks configuring it correctly across both the iOS app and a web client, so an attending physician could join a live session from either. iOS and web don't handle video streaming the same way, so getting both to feel like one consistent experience took real integration work, not just dropping in a video SDK.
Connectivity in a procedure room isn't guaranteed. We designed the app to store up to 10 low-resolution videos locally, then auto-upload everything to HIPAA-compliant AWS servers the moment a connection re-establishes, clearing the local cache once the upload completes.
Rather than a generic login, we built access validation against NPI (National Provider Identifier) numbers, so only a registered clinical practitioner could authenticate into the system at all. NPIs are assigned and maintained by CMS through NPPES, the same federal registry hospitals and payers already check against, so guest access without a valid NPI simply doesn't get in.
Moving real patient data over Bluetooth and video, staying usable with no signal, keeping unauthorized users out. Talk to us about what HIPAA-compliant IoT engineering looks like for your device.
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