The build tax is real. Craft instant digital health experiences that care.
Building real-time infrastructure from scratch is expensive, resource-intensive, slows time-to-market, and distracts your teams from patient-facing innovation — the work that makes and breaks patient experiences.
Meanwhile, patient retention rates are falling fast, and clinician burnout is on the rise as healthcare providers struggle with administrative burden and high workloads.
Your innovation is log-jammed waiting for infrastructure. Ditch the DIY project. Deploy secure, real-time care journeys your patients, customers, and clinicians deserve.
Whether it's mental health apps, traditional doctor-patient check-ins, or automated support workflows for scheduling, we've got you covered.
THE BENEFITS
Build immediate, immersive digital care.
Connect instantly: HIPAA-compliant secure real-time messaging
HIPAA-compliant encrypted chat, alerts, and notifications with ultra-low global latency means patients get answers fast and clinicians retain patients longer.
Benefit
Get information exactly when care decisions happen. No delays, no privacy anxiety, no waiting around all day for an answer.
Live remote monitoring: Track health and habits 24/7
Patient monitoring and alerts simplify remote care experiences. Connect to wearbles, sensors, and IoT devices and press the "easy button" on remote monitoring.
Benefit
Create virtual experiences and predictive alerting models that foster their independence while providing in-person caliber care.
Visibility and virtual waiting rooms
Amp up patient experiences with live status signaling that allows users to see which clinicians are available, and create clean virtual waiting room experiences in moments.
Benefit
Halve build time without halving the time patients spend on your app. Eliminate appointment readiness confusion, reduce virtual no-shows, and amp up operational efficiency instantly.
Smarter workflows, safer decisions
Weave AI-powered clinical alerts for things like medication errors, drug interactions, dosage recommendations, and more directly into physician workflows.
Benefit
Break cognitive burden and improve care safety with real-time API delivery of AI-supported workflows. Nab insights at the immediate point of care in moments when every second matters.
Drop downtime and delays
Critical care moments can't wait for infrastructure failures. Rely on our edge-to-cloud architecture to support millions of concurrent users with sub-100ms latency and automatic failover.
Benefit
Patients and clinicians always have access without fear of downtime or delays during crucial moments and health experiences.
Interactive infrastructure for enlightened engagement
Design fitness and digital health applications that delight, engage, and enlighten instantly with PubNub's low- and no-code engagement tools.
Benefit
Users keep coming back to meditate, journal, schedule sessions. Your team gets to focus on innovation and improvement instead of scrapping DIY projects.
Here’s how you can create the intimate experiences shoppers crave
Real‑Time Messaging & Chat
Support live and social shopping with advanced chat features: status, typing, reactions, emojis, sentiment, moderation
Benefit
Connect buyers, sellers, hosts, and influencers instantly; safer, more engaging conversations
Smart Notifications
Promotions, price drops, order updates, shipping ETAs, geo‑triggers
Benefit
Keep customers informed and returning, across the journey
Real-time Geolocation & Dispatch
Live driver tracking, route optimization, ETA updates, geofencing
Benefit
Streamline logistics, reduce delivery times, and enhance customer satisfaction with live tracking
Live Transactions & Sync
Inventory, pricing, bids, and quotes kept accurate in milliseconds
Benefit
Streamlined transactions reduce friction and speed decisions
Global Reliability
99.999% uptime, sub‑second delivery, worldwide edge network
Benefit
Confident scale during events, launches, and peak traffic
“With PubNub, our entire platform is immediate and in real time so our customers are always getting the information they need to best help their patients. Every new feature and function we add to Hearo now uses PubNub. PubNub makes our platform possible."
Myke Bates
Co-Founder and CTO, Hearo
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CASE STUDY
How does PubNub support eCommerce fulfillment and post‑purchase updates?
99.999% uptime, sub‑second delivery, worldwide edge network
ACV Auctions
Real‑time vehicle updates and instant buyer notifications accelerate the sales cycle.
Itemku
C2C chat with online/offline status builds trust and streamlines transactions.
Talk Shop Live
Real‑time shopper alerts, live influencer chat, and push notifications boost conversions.
PubNub | Ably | Why this matters | |
| PubNub vs Ably | |||
| Platform performance | |||
Uptime Guarantee An uptime guarantee offers peace of mind for you and confidence in the service we provide. | PUBNUB YesFor all customers | COMPETITOR NoLorem ipsum | |
Latency Lower latency provides a true real-time experience for users, which is crucial for increased engagement and adoption. | PUBNUB WAN < 30 ms50% of PubNub’s messages have below 20ms delivery speed. Our intranet latency is below 1ms, while our WAN latency is sub 30ms. | COMPETITOR Not Listed | |
| Scalability | |||
Uptime Guarantee An uptime guarantee offers peace of mind for you and confidence in the service we provide. | PUBNUB 99.999%For all customers | COMPETITOR 99.95% | |
Latency Lower latency provides a true real-time experience for users, which is crucial for increased engagement and adoption. | PUBNUB WAN < 30 ms50% of PubNub’s messages have below 20ms delivery speed. Our intranet latency is below 1ms, while our WAN latency is sub 30ms. | COMPETITOR Not Listed | |
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Launch your first live feature in minutes
Copy‑paste snippets for web, mobile, and server; API‑first and headless‑friendly
No server maintenance or scaling guesswork; enterprise‑grade security and compliance
Frequently Asked Questions
Are platforms built with PubNub HIPAA-compliant?
Yes. PubNub's architecture includes end-to-end encryption, audit trails, role-based access control, and tokenized authentication. No custom security implementation required. We handle the heavy lifting; you focus on clinical outcomes.
How do I integrate PubNub with our existing EHR?
PubNub SDKs integrate via FHIR-optimized APIs. Epic, Cerner, and Athena all support REST API integration. Our healthcare implementation guide includes specific integration patterns for major EHRs, and we provide white glove treatment to help you build more complex integrations.
Does PubNub just handle patient portal chat for digital health?
The sky is the limit with PubNub. Our platform handles hundreds of thousands of data points per user per day. We can create live dashboards, sync to wearables and sensors for remote monitoring, push notifications in real time, and aid your team in crafting engaging experiences fast with low-code tools.
Can PubNub work with our AI/clinical decision support platform?
Yes. Real-time data feeds integrate with machine learning pipelines and clinical decision support systems. Pre-built connectors for major analytics platforms (Databricks, Segment, etc.). Custom integrations supported via APIs.
What frameworks/languages are supported?
We work with yur stack, not the other way around: JavaScript/Node.js, Python, Java, Go, Swift (iOS), Kotlin (Android), React Native, Unity, and more. Web, mobile, backend, IoT-compatible.
Is there a free tier? Can we test before committing?
Yes! Free tier includes 250 concurrent connections, up to 1 million API calls/month, 1-day message history. Build, test, and launch your first real-time feature on us. No credit card required. Upgrade anytime.