C3 MedTech: Building a Smart Digital Companion for Dry Eye Disease Management

Helping eye care clinics digitize clinical workflows, treatment planning, reporting, and patient engagement through a secure mobile-first MedTech platform.

The C3 MedTech clinic dashboard on a laptop mounted to a slit lamp, showing left and right eye images with redness grading.
Client
C3 MedTech
Industry
Healthcare
Platform type
Mobile Application, Clinical Admin Platform, MedTech Patient Engagement Platform
Services
Custom Software DevelopmentMobile App DevelopmentQuality EngineeringUI/UX DesignProduct Strategy & Discovery

Overview

What this engagement was.

C3 MedTech, a US-based MedTech innovator focused on ophthalmology and eye care, wanted to build a smart digital platform for Dry Eye Disease management.

The goal was to help eye care clinics manage treatment plans, improve care continuity, organise clinical records, generate reports faster, and support patients beyond in-clinic appointments.

C3 MedTech engaged DigiWagon to design and develop a secure digital platform that supports ophthalmology clinics in managing Dry Eye Disease workflows, treatment guidance, clinical records, and reporting.

The solution brought together mobile app development, UX consulting, cross-platform engineering, admin workflows, doctor-led diagnosis modules, clinical record access, and automated report generation. While the platform ultimately improves the patient care experience, the primary users are doctors, clinic teams, and administrators.

Why it mattered

Why Eye Care Needed a Smarter Digital Companion

Managing Dry Eye Disease is not a one-time interaction. It often involves repeated care steps, treatment adherence, patient education, progress monitoring, clinic follow-ups, and ongoing doctor involvement.

For clinics, manual treatment tracking and disconnected patient communication made it harder to monitor adherence, maintain continuity of care, and create consistent clinical documentation.

C3 MedTech needed a secure, intuitive, and scalable platform that could simplify clinical workflows for doctors and clinic teams while improving the care experience for patients.

Business Challenge

  • Clinics needed a digital tool to create and manage patient-specific treatment plans.
  • Doctors needed a structured way to perform guided eye tests and review progress.
  • Clinic teams needed faster access to patient history, test results, and treatment
  • Educational content and product recommendations had to be shared in a more organised way.
  • Clinical reporting needed to become faster and less manual.
  • The platform needed to support clinic-branded deployment across multiple practices.
  • The solution had to remain secure, scalable, and HIPAA-compliant for healthcare use.
  • The experience had to support clinical users while remaining simple enough for patient-facing guidance.

Healthcare Context

Digital health platforms are becoming a key layer between clinics and patients. For chronic and recurring conditions, care does not stop after consultation. Doctors need better visibility, clinic teams need organised workflows, and patients need ongoing support.

For Dry Eye Disease management, a digital companion can help connect diagnosis, treatment tracking, education, recommendations, and reporting into one clinic-friendly experience.

User Problem

  1. Doctors needed better tools to perform, document, and review Dry Eye Disease workflows.
  2. Clinic teams needed a structured way to manage treatment plans, follow-ups, patient records, and reports.
  3. Administrators needed central visibility across clinics, users, content, and platform activity.
  4. Care teams needed a reliable way to support patients beyond in-clinic appointments.
  5. Clinics needed to reduce manual effort across testing, reporting, and patient engagement.
  6. Patients benefited through clearer treatment guidance, education, reminders, and continuity of care.
Interview board from an alert-review session with a compliance analyst — questions and answers on dry-eye diagnosis, patient follow-up, escalation, returning patients and what would make the clinic more efficient.

How we delivered

How We Built the Digital Care Layer

  1. Understand

    Mapped doctor, clinic, admin, and care workflows

    • Doctor-led test journeys
    • Clinic administration needs
    • Treatment planning workflows
    • Follow-up and engagement gaps
    • Reporting and documentation workflows
  2. Design

    Created simple journeys for clinical and platform users

    • Doctor workflow screens
    • Clinic dashboard structure
    • Patient-facing treatment guidance
    • Treatment plan interaction flows
    • Content and recommendation journeys
  3. Engineer

    Built the platform across mobile, web, and backend layers

    • Cross-platform mobile app
    • Clinic admin dashboard
    • Backend workflows
    • Doctor test and diagnosis module
    • Secure clinic-patient linking
  4. Scale

    Prepared the product for multi-clinic adoption

    • HIPAA-compliant architecture
    • Clinic-branded deployment support
    • Centralised usage tracking
    • Secure clinical data handling
    • QA and usability validation
Application map of the C3 MedTech platform — from splash screen, login and admin dashboard into staff and doctors, patient records, diagnosis and testing, reports and analytics, and content settings, down to test, report and export actions.

What we built

What DigiWagon Built for C3 MedTech

DigiWagon built a secure and scalable MedTech platform that supports doctor workflows, clinic operations, clinical documentation, and patient engagement.

The solution brings together mobile app development, doctor-facing clinical workflows, admin controls, treatment guidance, report generation, and clinic-patient connectivity.

The filmWatch how it works.

Key features

Core Healthcare Product Experiences

Doctor Test and Diagnosis Module

  • Built a guided module for doctors to perform eye tests within the system.
  • Enabled independent analysis of test results for each eye.
  • Supported structured clinical evaluation a
  • Helped doctors make faster and more informed care decisions.
The redness-in-eye test — left and right eye photographs side by side with reference images and colour-graded scales for conjunctival redness scoring.

Patient History and Treatment Plans

  • Gave doctors and clinic teams access to patient history, treatment plans, and progress details.
  • Centralised clinical records for better visibility during diagnosis and follow-up.
  • Reduced dependency on scattered manual notes.
  • Supported continuity of care across patient visits.
Tear-meniscus-height results for both eyes with TMH measurements, and a row of further tests — redness, NIBUT and meibography — each a click away.

Automated Report Generation

  • Integrated one-click report generation based on test results.
  • Helped clinics reduce manual documentation effort.
  • Supported faster diagnostic reporting and clinical communication.
  • Improved productivity for doctors and clinic teams.
An auto-generated patient report — name, age, scan and print dates over left- and right-eye meibography imagery.

Secure Clinic-Patient Linking

  • Built a secure system for connecting patients with their specific eye care clinic.
  • Enabled clinics to deliver a more connected and personalised care experience.
  • Supported ongoing communication between patients and care teams.
  • Created a stronger link between in-clinic care and at-home treatment management.

Educational Content and Product Recommendations

  • Enabled clinics to share trusted educational content with patients.
  • Supported product recommendation workflows linked to treatment guidance.
  • Helped improve patient awareness and adherence.
  • Created a more structured way to deliver care-related information.

Cross-Platform Experience

  • Built the mobile application using Flutter for iOS and Android.
  • Delivered a consistent experience across devices from a single codebase.
  • Reduced platform-specific development complexity.
  • Supported faster rollout and easier long-term maintenance.

Centralised Admin Dashboard

  • Developed a secure admin panel to manage clinics, users, and platform activity.
  • Enabled the client to track platform usage and oversee operations.
  • Supported clinic network management from one central system.
  • Created a scalable backend control layer for future expansion.
The clinic admin dashboard — patient volumes, test activity and adherence tracking in one control panel.

Technology

The stack behind this build.

Data

  • MySQL

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS Ec2

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Express.js

Frontend

  • ReactJS

Mobile

  • Flutter

Impact

What changed for the client.

The platform helped C3 MedTech create a secure, scalable, and clinic-ready MedTech product for Dry Eye Disease management. It improved how doctors and clinic teams manage treatment plans, monitor progress, generate reports, and support patients beyond appointments.

1

cross-platform mobile application built for iOS and Android.

1

secure clinic admin platform created for operational control.

1

click report generation enabled for faster clinical documentation.

40%

faster clinical decision-making through structured test results, patient history, and report access.

35%

reduction in manual clinic workflow effort across treatment tracking, reporting, and follow-up management.

30%

improvement in patient engagement through treatment guidance, reminders, education, and clinic-patient connectivity.

In closing

Where this leaves the product.

C3 MedTech now has a secure, scalable, and mobile-first healthcare platform that helps eye care clinics manage Dry Eye Disease workflows with greater structure and efficiency.

By combining UX consulting, cross-platform mobile development, backend engineering, admin dashboard development, clinical workflow design, secure clinic-patient linking, and automated report generation, DigiWagon helped turn a complex ophthalmology care journey into a connected digital experience.

The result is a smart MedTech companion built to support doctors, streamline clinic operations, improve patient engagement, and scale across a growing network of eye care practices.

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