Build A Successful Healthcare App: Popularity, Price And Future
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Mobile app development services for healthcare have seen tremendous popularity in the last couple of years. This was influenced by many different factors, and especially the times of Covid-19.
Digitalization of medicine is a real revolution in healthcare. Patients have access to a wealth of information and a range of medical and healthcare facilities with one touch of their mobile phone screen. There is no need to stand in “live” queues anymore. This helps not only patients looking for easy access to medical care but also doctors and business owners.
In this article, we will talk about the most important features of mobile apps for healthcare, how to create a medical app, what it can be, and how much it costs. The tips are based on the experience of our professional cross-platform mobile app developers from the OmiSoft team.
What is Healthcare App Development?
Healthcare app development is the process of creating an application for mobile devices (can be both Android and IOS) that helps users successfully access and track their health issues in real time. This can be a variety of medical services, hospital experiences, electronic health records or insurance benefits.
Medical apps make life easier for both doctors and patients. An app for doctors can help them keep track of patients and their medical records (especially important for vaccination reminders), schedule appointments, and manage staff. Patients need digital health solutions for making appointments (e.g. through an online coupon system), online consultations, communicating with doctors in real time, or getting recommendations.
As an example, Marpe Wellbeing is a digital health platform that addresses the issue of access to therapy. Clients can make an appointment with a highly qualified and experienced therapist, and doctors can increase the efficiency of their work.
Types of Healthcare Apps
You are ready to start your business of developing healthcare apps that can satisfy health enthusiasts, dance enthusiasts, fitness enthusiasts, and gym-goers. However, the question arises: what type of healthcare app to choose?
Before you start learning how to create a mobile app for healthcare, it’s very important to choose the right category and feature set that best suits your needs. There is a small classification of applications in the field of health and well-being, which is usually divided into two categories: аpplication for healthcare professionals and application for patients.
Application for Healthcare Professionals | Application For Patients |
Medical applications created for medical personnel are designed to help them in providing medical services to the population. I. Medical Record AppThe appendix to the medical record will contain the patient’s medical history. Here you can find the patient’s blood pressure readings, emergency room visits, medications, recent blood markers, etc. Healthcare professionals can use the app to update medical records. II. Clinical and Diagnosis AppDoctors prefer to use clinical and diagnostic apps to cope with large amounts of information. Such apps are useful for notifying patients about upcoming visits and helping them keep track of those visits and their medical history. III. Medical Database ApplicationsA very efficient organization of work is created when the patient’s medical information is in one place. Various comprehensive medical app development services include providing a secure application that integrates symptoms, medications, or even prescriptions issued for a patient. IV. Medical Billing AppIt is a revolution in the field of medical accounting. Doctors, medical accountants, clinic/hospital administrators, etc. can use a medical billing app that relies on these applications to streamline the billing and invoicing process. Likewise, doctors can also use this to manage their accounts with medical representatives, surgical stores, etc. V. TelehealthThe development of medical applications has opened up a valuable opportunity for patients to interact with mental health professionals online and receive consultations from the comfort of their homes through modern telemedicine systems. | These are mobile applications used by people who want to lead a healthy lifestyle. I. Fitness AppsThere are many popular and successful fitness apps. These include BetterMe, MyFitnessPal, and Digifit, Care Sport. These apps are most often used by beginners who are looking for the perfect way to keep fit in a simple way. The market is flooded with fitness apps and guided apps. The latter will allow people to work with a virtual trainer, and monitor their nutrition, health, and physical activity to form healthy habits. II. App for making an appointment with a doctorSuch applications help patients to make an appointment online and, if necessary, reschedule it. And the doctor, in turn, can easily track his workload for the day. Everyone receives a notification reminder about the appointment. III. Personal health recordingKeeping personal medical records on your phone is a must-have! Such an application is useful for patients suffering from chronic diseases or long-term illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, etc. It helps to maintain your health by constantly monitoring your well-being in real-time. The personal physician can adjust the patient’s treatment and prevent any future complications as they will have access to the patient’s health information. IV. Lifestyle AppThis type of app is useful for maintaining a healthy diet and following a healthy lifestyle. It helps to take care of all the needs of physical activity, meal plans, daily water balance, and vitamin intake. Users are also notified about the exercises they need to do to stay healthy and the app does all the checking on their behalf to tailor the workout. Example: OmiSoft’s healthy meal app case study. V. Diet and Nutrition AppThere are dedicated diet and nutrition apps such as Fooducate, Lifesum, and others. They encourage users to maintain a regular, balanced diet while tracking their eating habits, counting calories, and the nutritional value of their current diet. The development plan for such a health app should include reminders, meal planning, calorie calculators, food and health databases, and many other useful features. All this will increase the value of the application for users and make them not switch to another. |
Examples of Successful Healthcare Apps
Healthcare systems around the world are experiencing instability. Especially during the difficult times of the Covid-crisis. However, new projects and digital innovations give the industry opportunities for growth. One of the trends of the modern digital market, which is gaining momentum, is the use of smartphones to provide medical services. According to statistics from Statista, the global market for medical mobile applications will reach more than $11 billion by 2025.
There are already successful projects in this area on the market. What are some examples of successful healthcare applications? Let’s take a closer look at them…
Mental wellbeing is a spectrum that applies to everyone. One end describes those who feel great all the time and the other end describes those who really struggle with their mental health, which affects their daily life. Therapy at Marpa aims to bring you as close as possible to the green side. Video therapy sessions with experienced therapists in this app from the comfort of your home. This application was developed by Omisoft’s professional cross-platform development team.
Amwell is one of the most popular telemedicine applications in the United States, powered by American Well. Telemedicine has the potential to reduce the gap between supply and demand in healthcare. The patient uses the app to make a virtual appointment with an emergency doctor and can immediately connect with a real doctor via a video call.
Doximity is one of the first applications and perhaps the most successful medical social networks. It claims to be the world’s largest network of medical professionals. It is a reliable source of medical news, a way to track your ranking in residency and even a chat application.
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced people to focus on strengthening their immune system and overall health, as well as getting enough sleep. Often this comes down to getting vitamin D.
Dminder is a special app that helps users keep track of their sleep. When it’s time to bask in the sun, the app also alerts users to go outside based on their location.
Medisafe is a mobile application that reminds users to take their medications on time. In addition, it simplifies the choice of the right medication by providing thoughtful recommendations from the prescription information.
How Much Does Healthcare App Development Cost?
Many factors influence the cost of building a healthcare app (this includes the development team, which country it is from; the functionality required), but roughly you can think of the following calculations:
| Small apps | Medium apps | Big apps |
| $20.000-60.000 | $60.000 – 150.000 | From $150.000 |
There are a whole host of costs associated with an app development project as you add artificial intelligence, embed, and use real-time features that can add up to $150,000 for a fully “packaged” app. Of course, the development of the full cycle includes many stages: planning, design, development, testing, and support.
Developing an app for a specific sector has a distinct set of hurdles. There are planning, development, and maintenance phases involved in building a healthcare mobile app. If you want to learn more about the app development framework or cost estimation, please follow the link – and read our article.
Benefits of Healthcare Application Development
- Quick access to medical care – anytime and anywhere
Mobile health apps allow patients to easily send messages, schedule appointments, and connect with healthcare providers continuously for telemedicine visits. Patients can ask their questions via video calls, chats, or calls to avoid offline visits for minor issues. This creates a more efficient medical structure for both patients and doctors.
- Minimizing the risks of false diagnosis
Traditional “by hand” management of the patient’s medical documentation is prone to diagnostic errors, inaccuracies and takes a lot of time. But medical applications negate all these potential problems, which can prove fatal for the patient.
- Improving communication with patients
mHealth apps promote patient engagement through efficient patient-centric care, personalized experiences and knowledge sharing between providers and patients. Patients can access and manage their medical records/prescriptions from the comfort of their homes, without having to store and carry a pile of paper records.
- Іmproving the medical environment
Connected to the Internet of things, medical applications, including wearable devices such as fitness bracelets and other wireless devices such as blood pressure and heart rate monitors, blood glucose meters and others, recommend real-time monitoring, allowing doctors to choose accurate medical applications data about themselves in any place and at any time. The data is stored forever.
- Hassle-free payments
Traditionally, dealing with paper bills was a difficult process for both patients and hospital staff. With mobile healthcare apps, people don’t need to stand in long queues for hours to make payments.
A highly secure payment gateway integrated into the app allows users to make instant payments securely and in a few clicks. They can choose their preferred payment method, pay online (debit or credit card) and contact their insurer (if necessary) through the app.
Important! These are not all the benefits of healthcare apps, but only the main ones. Every day there are more and more trends for the development of such applications that improve them even more.
Conclusion
The digital world doesn’t stand still, and the healthcare industry is no exception. New trends appear every day to improve mHealth applications. Your development team must know all the features of such applications and keep up with the times to create a powerful product.
The OmiSoft team will be happy to help you analyze the competitors’ market, generate or implement your idea and provide a full cycle development. Trust our professional developers for their expertise in creating mobile healthcare apps that deliver accessibility and a great user experience.
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