Healthcare Mobile App Development: Types, Trends, & Features



The healthcare industry, among all others, is applying digital technologies and utilizing mobile devices for healthcare app development. mHealth (refers to mobile health) is a common term used for applying mobile technologies and devices (smartphones, wearables, tablets) in a medical and public health practice. Healthcare mobile app development provides lots of benefits.
Unsurprisingly, in 2017 there were 325,000 available healthcare apps with a range of functionalities, from personal fitness trackers to programs to help maintain chronic health conditions. Many of them evolved from MVP healthcare app projects from personal fitness trackers to programs to help maintain chronic health conditions.
Just imagine, around 3.7 billion apps were downloaded in 2017 offering health services. This number is expected to grow by 16% within the next year and should result in a commercial success by making a total of $26 billion worldwide. The heavy usage of smartphones and smartwatches contributed even greater growth to the mobile health consumer app market.
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) mentions that 1.7 billion smartphone users are going to adopt healthcare mobile apps by 2018. Consequently, this is definitely the right time for healthcare mobile app development, and this article should help you with the following:
  • Analyze the best healthcare applications
  • Check out technology trends within the healthcare mobile app industry (IoT, AI, Blockchain, etc.)
  • Understand the future of the mHealth app market
  • Determine ways to make a successful healthcare app
  • Check out the design, healthcare app development, and monetization tips

MLSDev Expertise in Healthcare Mobile App Development


As can be seen, mHealth apps provide lots of benefits for the healthcare industry and particularly for both patients and doctors. The best healthcare apps may offer solutions to decrease the number of steps involved in sustaining their health level.
Our team has experience in delivering complex healthcare projects. Among them is the Idana project, where we had great cooperation with Tomes GmbH.

Idana helps to perform anamnesis on a patient before their actual visit. Due to the project's specifics, our team offered to develop a web progressive app that was compliant with the IEC 62304 standard used for medical device software. You may check out what one of Idana’s co-founders said about us on the GoodFirms platform.
Another healthcare app developed by our team is a medical tracking app. A Healexir app is a companion tool for Healexir, the homeopathic product used for surgical recovery. The app guides users through a specific recovery protocol with reminders to take Healexir at regular intervals to ensure a maximum and speedy recovery.

Types of Healthcare Apps


In general, all healthcare apps can be divided into two categories - professional healthcare apps and healthcare apps for patients. Doctor apps are used for medical instruction, access to healthcare records and diagnoses, medical prescriptions, and essentially all other internal matters.
The other category consists of medical apps used by patients in clinics or personal healthcare apps.

Professional Healthcare Apps

  • Medical reference & database apps
These medical apps assist doctors with keeping all the information regarding diseases, drugs, and prescriptions in one place (e.g Medscape, Epocrates, VisualDX).
  • Professional networking apps
These are thematic social networks where healthcare providers and professionals can connect, interact, exchange knowledge, and grow the professional community (e.g. DailyRounds, Figure 1, Among Doctors).
  • Patient medical health tracking apps
Logically, these healthcare apps help doctors monitor the health of their patients throughout the medical treatment process. Results from various labs and medical tests are listed there, as well as all other medical documentation (e.g VitalHub Chart).
  • Doctor appointment & clinical assistance apps
To reduce the handwritten work of keeping journals, clinics can use apps for appointments. All parties can be notified about changes in the calendar, which makes life much easier (e.g. Zocdoc).
  • Telehealth mobile apps (doctor-on-demand apps)
Telehealth apps are a great solution for online doctor visits and consultations (e.g. KRY).

Mobile Health Apps for Patients

Next is a list of the most common apps used by patients and individual consumers:
  • Patient medical education apps (patient portals) - to monitor useful information
  • Reminder apps - includes medical tracking apps, or some health habit (water consumption)
  • Diagnosis apps for preventive purposes
  • Healthy lifestyle apps - health tests, fitness and wellness apps, cardio apps
  • Monitoring apps - for chronic conditions like diabetes, blood pressure, cancer, etc.
  • Mental health apps - stress relief apps, meditation apps, apps for good sleep
  • Dieting apps - trackers, exercise, weight loss apps
  • Women's health apps - for pregnancy, feeding, or monthly calendar

Comments

  1. Lenin JosephJune 20, 2022 at 12:10 AM

    Really interesting content and thanks for sharing with us. Mobile app development playing an crucial part in various industries like software development companies, product engineering services companies, etc. Keep sharing more informative content with us.

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