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SOLUTION OR WANT TO GET SOME
ASSISTANCE?
Here, we have summed up few things that are
needed to know with “How to develop a medical
app or a healthcare app?”
02.

Digital evolution already boomed the world and touched almost all major industries.
From food ordering to online shopping, everyone is using their smartphones to
perform their day-to-day activities, even the complex ones as well. So, how can the
major healthcare industry be apart from that evolution?
The healthcare industry is the one, who needed that evolution the most, as it can
prevent major health hazards by just digitally evaluation of the patient’s condition or
by general medication. Now a days, we can witness plenty of healthcare apps that are
helping to achieve a healthier life by providing regular tips, monitoring physical
activities, or tracking medical emergencies.
03.

By influencing from the trend, several hospitals, medical professionals and healthcare
institutions are adapting Healthcare App Development services and building their
own mobile healthcare apps. These kinds of applications are connecting medical
professionals with the patients directly and help them to achieve a healthier life with a
better user reach.
Before exploring more details about the healthcare app development and the trends,
first take a look at the current market stats. Also, realize the requirements, identify
available types of medical apps, and figured out the major reason “why several apps
failed without making a significant presence”.
04.

Either you are a medical professional or a medical app development company, keep
your eyes on a few questions before investing in healthcare apps,
Here, we are illustrating market stats, common types of applications, required
standards or clauses and current trends that are needed to be successful in the highly
competitive market. Let’s explore the market stats first,
- Why these mHealth app will be useful?
- What are the causes of failure?
- How many types of medical health apps are available?
- What are the essential features do these apps have?
- What are the clauses to run these kinds of apps?
05.

MARKET STATS.HEALTHCARE MARKET STATS.
Keep your eyes on the market stats to know
the amazing things about the Healthcare
Industry.
06.

Mobile Healthcare Industry or mHealth has already witnessed a great boom in
previous years and estimated to cross $32 billion dollar market by 2024, with a CAGR
of 7.4% from 2018 to 2024. According to ortholive.com, there are more than 97000
health and fitness applications available in the market. While Statista stated that
around 44000 apps are available on Apple app store in third quarter of 2019, which is
around 45% of the total no of applications.
Despite this, Statista demonstrated the global digital health market growth by major
segments (source),
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Global Digital Health Market from 2015 to 2020, by major
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Take a look at the major healthcare market stats,
• 32% of the world mHealth market is acquired
by the pharma companies, healthcare
institutes and hospitals.
• Development companies and technology
experts are representing almost 23% of the
market.
• Around 52% smartphone users use health
apps to collect health information.
• Users between 18-29 age group already have
health apps on their smart phones, which is
almost 15%.
• Users between 30-49 years age group already
have medical apps on their phone, which is
almost 8%.
• 40% doctors believe that these mHealth apps
can reduce total number of clinical visits and
improve healthier lifestyle.
• 25% of American physicians are already using
these mHealth App.
• 93% doctors stated that these mHealth apps
can improve patient’s health.
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MHEALTH APP
USE.
WHY THESE MHEALTH APP WILL BE
USEFUL?
Check out the stats here to idealize “why
these mHealth app will be useful?” and make
your mind to use them.
10.

There are several myths and reasons exist that can encourage or demoralize you and
force you to think twice about the mHealth apps use. The thing is you need to analyze
these apps by yourself first. Here, you can explore why these mHealth apps will be
useful,
• They can advise you about the nutritional diet and help you to get a better
health.
• They will suggest a proper workout plan as per your routine.
• They can connect you with the professional experts or doctors to communicate
directly.
• They will help you to get online prescriptions, reports and advises.
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• They can provide a data bank to store, retrieve and access your medical records
anywhere anytime.
• They can provide a relief in emergencies and connect you with the doctors with
a click.
• They can notify and remind you about your prescription, reports, treatment,
appointment, and other things.
• These apps will provide you a list of doctors and professional experts including
their qualifications, work experience and associations.
• You can book an appointment of your preferred doctor directly through these
apps based on their reviews and ratings.
• These apps can provide you the directions of clinics, and hospitals.
12.

FAILURE REASONS.WHAT ARE THE MAIN CAUSES OF
FAILURE?
Check out the main reasons here to identify
why the failure happens in Medical App
Industry.
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01. Unclear Structure or Improper UX
There is a huge chance of not getting a proper response as you thought from the
healthcare app development or your mHealth app. So, you have to be more focused
and precise about the requirement.
Here, you can check out the major possible reasons why these kinds of apps failed to
get proper attention and success,
User always comes first and so their experience. If any application fails to improve user
experience, that will surely fail to get success. So, keep it easy with proper flow and
better engagement ratio.
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02. Complex Solution for problems
03. Not following the Privacy
Regulations
Keep it in mind, that a user always comes to find a solution not to entertain
themselves. If the mHealth app can’t give a solution to the particular pain, then there
are high chances of failure. So, choose a particular segment, and provide detailed
solution to a particular disease or an ailment to assure success of the healthcare
application.
To ensure the success in this segment, you need to follow the HIPPA Regulations and
country wide privacy statements.
15.

04. Expertise and Knowledge constraints
Healthcare industry is based on satisfying advise and if the professional experts
associated with the Healthcare Solution, aren’t enough knowledgeable in the field, the
chances of failure will be high. Even, a human being always believes on the opinion of
an expert who holds relevant qualifications, people reviews, and years of experience in
the segment.
So, keep the expert panel qualified, renown and recommendable.
16.

TYPES OF APPS.How many types of medical health
apps are available?
Check out the types of medical health apps
available in the market to meet up the
requirement and idealize the major USP for
your own.
17.

Healthcare industry is wider than we know and have a large number of sub-segments
to produce better solutions for a particular health requirement, pain, or disease. Due
to the multiple sub-segments, that’s a great opportunity for Mobile App development
companies or individuals to highlight a particular segment and produce a functional
solution.
Well, those sub-segments can be divided into 3 major healthcare app types,
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01. Daily Health Applications
These kinds of apps are used to track and record daily routine activities to maintain
body shape, sleep, nutritional needs, etc. without keeping your calendar with you.
Here’s the list of features that those daily health apps usually contain,
• Monitor & track sleep (Quantity & Stage), and steps with an optional tracking of
heartbeats, BP, pulse, fluid consumption, tilt swing and calorie counter.
• Analyze the data collected through routine activities.
• Push users to achieve their goals through instant notifications.
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02. Hospital and EHR/EMR Applications
- HOSPITAL APPLICATIONS
Specifically developed for a hospital to endorse their brand and connect with the users
or patients directly. These hospital or clinic apps usually contains features like,
• Online Consultations & reminder of
pills.
• Daily health tracking
• Expert’s opinion based on the data
• Storage of EMR (Electronic Medical
Records) and access of them
• Notification based on the data
collected
• Wayfinding Map
• Appointment facility
• One-click Ambulance
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- EHR APPLICATIONS
Another variant of those are EHR (Electronic Health Records) Apps, where users can
choose from a list of hospitals, or doctors and consult online. All other features are
similar to the hospital apps. As an add-on those apps can have emergency mode,
where user can grant permission to the consultant or public to access their record for
a limited time frame.
Well, those sub-segments can be divided into 3 major healthcare app types,
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03. Medical Software
One of the complex systems to develop as this software perform tasks like symptom
description, in-app diagnostics, and x-ray operations. Even these can be well-known
online medicine applications, where user can upload their prescription and order their
medicines online.
In such software, user can connect a device and diagnose their BP, sugar, and other
diseases easily, but to develop such system, developer needs to be guided and tested
through medical professionals. Also, these software needs to adhere several rules and
regulations along with a complete guide or manual about the use as the living
humans are testing themselves.
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FEATURES.What are the essential features do
these apps have?
Keep your eyes on the major features, that
encourage users to opt your mHealth app
on regular basis.
24.

A mHealth app should contain all major and essential feature like other mobile apps
usually have such as: sign-in/sign-up, profile details, listing, etc. Usually those apps
have a patient variant, a consultant variant, and HIMS to perform functions and
connect each other.
Here’s the list of major features that those app variants have,
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- PATIENT APP.
Patients can use these kind of
mHealth Apps for appointments,
daily health tips, pill reminders, etc.
26.

- DOCTOR APP.
Doctors can also use these kind of
mHealth Apps to increase their direct
reach and share their thoughts or
advise on the panel.
27.

- HIS DASHBOARD.
mHealth Apps are like business
opportunity for organizations, so, the
app should contain dashboard for
admins, where they can manage
patients, doctors and inventories.
28.

CLAUSES.What are the regulations to run
these kinds of apps?
Keep your eyes on the major rules, and
remove hurdles from your path because the
Healthcare industry is highly sensitive.
29.

Healthcare industry is a highly sensitive segment, and combining technology with this
industry needs to adhere security regulations or privacy statements. These regulations
are different for each country and developer needs to be aware about those.
A mHealth app must design properly and follow the regulations set out by the
government authorities that ensures the privacy of information. Those regulations
differ from country to country, have a look here,
30.

- THE UNITED STATES
A mHealth app designed specially for the US market
should compliance the Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act (HIPPA) that regulates “how
protected health information should transmitted
between servers and the end entities.”
Note: If mHealth app stores or transmitted personal
health information, then it should compliance HIPPA
regulations, else there is no requirement to obey
HIPPA regulations.
31.

- THE EUROPEAN UNION
In Europe, A mHealth app should compliance the
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that
specify what organizations can or can’t do with
personal information and how they should protect it.
So, if you are thinking to launch your app in Europe
with a facility to store personal health data, you need
to follow the GDPR.
32.

- THE UNITED KINGDOM
In the UK, your app should compliance the new Data
Protection Act (DPA 2018) which set limits on the
storage, and access of the information. The DPA 2018
also applies the GDPR standards with some
modifications for financial services, academic research
and child protection.
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- CANADA
The Canadian government sets Personal Information
Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) for
the use of personal health information, which sets out
the rules for collecting, accessing and disclosing the
information in a way that distinguish right to privacy
of individuals.
The act also regulates organizations to collect
information in an appropriate circumstance.
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- ASIAN REGION
Countries in Asia, have come with several regulations
in a “European style” privacy law. Several are obeying
GDPR and some follows other. Japan has the oldest
law in this segment “Personal Information Protection
Act (PIPA)”, which was established before 2003.
In Singapore, Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA)
sets out some of the stiffest penalties in this segment.
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CONCLUSION.Conclusion - The Bottom Line
Keep your eyes on the major rules, and
remove hurdles from your path because the
Healthcare industry is highly sensitive.
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Healthcare Industry has the high potential and opportunity for the app developers to
be a part of billion-dollar industry and produce worthful applications that help to
achieve healthier living. The industry already has a great number of applications of
app stores and some of them are really good in both ways – user points and revenue
point.
Take a look at the global healthcare enterprise software market, by region
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Global healthcare enterprise software market,
by region
Americas
Europe
Asia-Pacific
Middle East & Africa
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Although, entering in this segment doesn’t ensure you the success, you have to know
the reasons, clauses, and market trends that sets your path to the success. So, keep
your eyes on market trends, user requirements, government regulations and the
features of your medical health app.
We hope that the information provided above is useful for you. If you have any doubt
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