--- title: "Patient & Provider Ecosystem: Physical Therapy Platform" description: "Case study: building an end-to-end physical-therapy ecosystem. Embedded equipment software, patient mobile apps, provider web apps, backend services, and data warehousing." doc_version: 1 last_updated: 2026-05-23 canonical: https://variable.team/projects/physical-therapy --- # Patient / Provider Solution for Physical Therapy - **Companies:** Dyaco, Philips - **Industry:** Health & Fitness - **Dates:** Apr 2019 to Aug 2019 ### Dyaco's market opportunity In 2019, I was introduced to a Health & Fitness manufacturer named Dyaco. Dyaco has long provided fitness equipment and over the past decade expanded into high-quality medical-grade equipment for hospitals and outpatient centers. Dyaco wanted to expand its place in the market by giving patients and providers easy access to their data, helping them connect with each other, and ensuring physical therapy sessions could be carried out correctly at home even when the therapist was not available. ### Designing the end-to-end solution I helped Dyaco design a fully realized end-to-end solution comprising: 1. A highly scalable serverless backend on a cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure were all candidate solutions). 2. Centralized storage and management of sensitive patient data within Philips HSDP (HealthSuite Digital Platform). 3. Mobile applications connected to Philips HSDP enabling patients and providers to access data and communicate. 4. Embedded software in the exercise equipment that communicated with the backend and integrated with the mobile applications. 5. Remote management of exercise equipment by providers, with remote technical support from the manufacturer. ### Delivering the prototype At the end of the engagement, a fully high-fidelity prototype was delivered to Dyaco encompassing a data export app, a patient/provider app, an embedded app for the exercise equipment, and an architecture diagram of the backend solution. ## Sitemap [Full site index](/sitemap.md)