Building a real-time healthtech platform with Laravel
Notes from building a telehealth MVP on Laravel, Redis and AWS, where the hard part is handling sensitive data properly.
- Written by
- Jareer Zeenam, Technical Lead
- Published
- Reading time
- 1 min read
The brief
The client needed a telehealth platform: live consultations, patient records and scheduling in one product. With health data, how it is stored and who can see it matters more than how quickly features appear.
We have not named the client here.
The architecture
The backend is Laravel, with Redis for real-time session handling and background jobs. The front end is Vue 3 with Pinia for state. It is deployed on AWS.
Security and quality
- Sensitive data encrypted at rest, with access controlled by role.
- Automated tests written with Pest.
- Performance monitoring and alerting.
What we took from it
Decide who can see what before designing screens. Retro-fitting permissions onto a finished interface is slow and risky. And keep the first version small, so the parts that handle sensitive data get the attention they need.
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