Medical Healthcare Mobile App Development

Mobiles made our life more sophisticated and easier. Various industries have adopted the trend of mobile in their business and made huge profit in their business.

Health care industry also expands its services via mobile applications. More than 50,000 health-care based apps are found in App Play store.

Evolution of Medical Apps

Healthcare apps are changing the healthcare background. The advent of mobile phones with touch screen and Internet connectivity has brought tidal wave of apps designed for every purpose, ranging from monitoring body temperature to heart beat measurement.

In past, healthcare industries concentrated on manufacturing medical kits for hospitals. Now-a-days, the olden trend has been changed and they are switching to mobile applications as their conventional offering.

Majority of these apps are used by patients and doctors. This has brought an exemplar shift in people’s perception of healthcare by making it more accessible.

Statistics on mobile-based healthcare app usage

Majority of healthcare mobile apps are projected for consumers and patients, while remaining apps are intended for doctors

Recent article about the healthcare mobility development:

The healthcare mobility solutions market will grow at a CAGR of 28.0% by 2023 – Market Research Engine
Most common healthcare apps are dealing with fitness, lifestyle and stress, diet, and nutrition.

For better understanding of the usage of mobile-based healthcare apps, let’s have a look on statistics.

Number of m-Health app downloads worldwide from 2013 to 2016 (in billions)

Major Types of Health Care Apps in Healthcare Industry

While most of m-health apps deals with sensitive information, but patients and doctors are highly benefited through the development of various types of apps. Health care apps are dependable resources for latest news, advice and expertise.

Let’s have the knowledge about top-trending-categories in health care Apps.

Emergency Apps

These type of apps directs the patients to the nearest and cost-effective emergency rooms. Additionally, it also gives information about how to reach there.

Lifestyle Apps

Lifestyle apps which encompasses fitness, diet, and nutrition. It also included pregnancy and baby development, and Diet assistance for obesity.
Lifestyle apps ranging from sleep tracking to diet maintenance.

Mostly used apps are Carrot Fit, Glow, and Fitbit.

Clinical Assistance and Diagnostic Apps

These apps have different types of functions such as allowing doctors to check EHRs or access lab results during an appointment. It would allow for image view and patient history, so that doctor can use these information.

Popular clinical assistance apps which are used by doctors are Epocrates, Mobile MIM, and DrawMD.

Monitoring Apps

Latest trending apps are monitoring apps in healthcare industry. Monitoring apps are allowing doctors to track on the symptoms of patient health in remote. Patients can also track their symptoms.

Information which can be monitored are oxygen level, ECG view, and Diabetes level. Notable patient monitoring apps are AmericanWell, Intouch health, and Airstrip Patient Monitoring.

Reminder Applications

Recalling to take medicines and monitor their effects is our most important aspect for our body health. But we always forget to take.

If someone remind us, it would be of good, Right. Our own mobile can do this. How it’s possible? Yes its possible by using reminder healthcare applications. These apps are used to remind us about the doctor appointments, and time to take medicines.

Good examples for these apps are Talksoft Connect, MyPillBox, and Onpatient.

How to build an effective mobile-based health care app

In order to build a mobile health application efficaciously, it’s our responsibility to find out what the target audience needs. Most of the medical apps are not on customer expectation level due to poor usage experience, perplexing user interfaces and inadequate functionality.

To make an exceptional mobile app, it’s very important to know about the shortcoming of apps currently on the market. Most of them includes:
• Vague structure
• Lack of clinical inputs
• Poor usability
• Failed to meet Privacy Regulations and standards

Here are the three things to be considered before building a medical application:

1.UI/UX Design

App success always lies on its design and features. If the healthcare app is for patient, then design should be met with user experience.

Whole design of the app should be personal and supportive. Even the fonts, colors should not portrays negative.

2.Privacy and Security

Medical app’s architecture should be designed in such a way to meet the security and privacy needs defined by governmental bodies to safeguard that owners don’t need face potential financial liability. Stored date must be encrypted in all stages.

Data encryption standards must be switched to modern encryption algorithms to play critical role in the security.

Based on the regions, the regulations act may vary. All technologies to be used in Health care apps should be based on their regulations.

If the app is built for US market, it should comply with the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).
If it is for European market, the app should satisfy with vigilance of EU data protection laws such as Data protection Directive and e-privacy directive.

Canada government has PIPEDA for administering the personal data.

3.Testing

Testing health care app involves high risk. Opting Manual or Automation tools, it is more important to test health care for the following:

• Authenticity and security based on regulations
• If the app is of geo-location based service, accuracy check must be done
• Test medical imaging apps for medical imaging
• Test the app on different platforms for compatibility
• Test the apps against performance benchmark
• Usability testing

Cost to build a medical application

Price of medical app development based on the complexity involved and amount of time spent on its development.

Based on our works, it would take 30-40 days to make a mobile healthcare app for Android platform. These same time duration would apply to iOS platforms too.

Let’s Conclude

The plea for mobile healthcare apps is aggregating day-by-day, as healthcare providers and patients are able to make the most out of it.

Few healthcare application development companies are specialized in developing personalized mobility solutions. To build an m-health apps that have fruitful effect, customer interest should be a top priority.

So, if you have an idea of developing healthcare app, talk to our experts to come up with a solution and modify the way patients and physicians engage with each other in the healthcare division.

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