A Serverless Platform That Turns Daily Smartphone Activity Into Objective Post-Operative Recovery Data

Mindbowser built an iOS app, two role-based web portals, and a serverless AWS backend for a clinical outcomes startup, replacing subjective post-op check-ins with continuous activity data synced through Apple HealthKit. A proprietary machine-learning model turns steps, distance, calories, and standing time into a recovery signal clinicians can actually read.

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Customer Focus

A clinical outcomes startup replacing subjective post-operative assessment with objective, activity-based recovery tracking.

Scope

Patient-facing iOS app, SuperAdmin and Care Provider web portals, and the serverless AWS backend connecting all three.

Stack

iOS, HealthKit, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Cognito, Amplify, CloudWatch, Plotly JS.

Status

Delivered

Outcomes

Four Systems Shipped, Built to Run Without a Server to Manage

Client-side adoption and clinical outcome metrics were not available at the time of writing. What shipped is four working systems built around a single recovery data pipeline.

Patient App

iOS app syncing daily steps, distance, standing time, and calories through Apple HealthKit, with surgery details and appointment reminders built in.

Two Portals

Role-based SuperAdmin and Care Provider portals giving structured, filterable access to patient and cohort data.

Serverless Backend

AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway handle capacity and scaling automatically, with no server to provision or patch.

Clinical Visualizations

Custom Plotly JS charts showing individual recovery trajectories and cohort-level comparisons by age, BMI, and treatment type.

The Problem

Recovery Was a Judgment Call, Not a Data Point

The founding team paired orthopedic and financial-modeling expertise but had no engineering background, and no standardized way to see how a patient was actually recovering between visits.

01
Subjective assessment, no real-time data

Post-operative outcomes were judged subjectively, with no standardized activity data behind the call.

02
No way to catch a setback early

No objective tool existed to track a patient's recovery trajectory or flag a critical setback before the next follow-up.

03
No cohort-level visibility

Clinicians lacked detailed visualization to compare outcomes across patients by age, BMI, or treatment type.

04
Clinical vision, no product scope

The non-technical founding team needed a structured process to turn a clinical idea into a defined product scope and architecture.

05
Open performance questions at scale

Managing large volumes of patient activity data for graph generation raised real questions about performance before a line of code was written.

The Tech Stack

A serverless AWS backend behind a native iOS app and two web portals, with custom visualization on top.

  • iOS
  • Apple HealthKit
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS DynamoDB
  • AWS API Gateway
  • AWS Cognito
  • AWS Amplify
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • Plotly JS
What We Built

From Clinical Idea to a Working Recovery Platform

Design Sprints Before a Line of Code

The founding team came from clinical and financial backgrounds, not engineering. Before any build work started, we ran Design Sprint sessions in sequence, so the team could participate fully without getting lost in technical decisions they weren't equipped to make yet. By the end, everyone knew what to build, what to cut, and how the pieces fit together.

  • User personas
  • Market research
  • UX principles
  • Wireframing

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Location

Global Tech Teams LLC, 525 Washington Blvd, Industrious at Newport Tower, Jersey City, NJ 07310, United States.

Contact

+1 408 786 5974
contact@mindbowser.com
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