According to Statista, the healthcare sector is about to become one of the top revenue contributors. It is estimated to reach a figure of $58.8 billion in 2020 increasing from $25.39 in 2017.
Also, a report by Research 2 Guidance revealed that 325,000 mobile health apps are available in 2017 worldwide over Android platform.
By now, we have seen the rise in development and download of mobile apps for the healthcare industry. And yes, the mobile development industry gets credits for introducing health applications too. But do you know how it can actually benefit the industry?
Today we are discussing the top 5 usefulness of mobile app for healthcare industry among the dozens of other.
1. The apps inform the doctors about the patient’s health condition.
The mobile app has the provision to update all the necessary information about a patient’s health condition to the doctors. According to another recent statistic, it is found that about 93% of the doctors (worldwide) believe that healthcare apps can support patient’s health and about 80% of them are using applications to deliver improved patient care.
You might be thinking, this point to be an obvious one, but most of the apps don’t offer updated results. Talk to your mobile app development company clearly about this.
If you are aware, now the prescriptions are become digitalized and it can be accessed from different devices too.
2. Great for remote areas.
Buying medicines without traveling to the clinics are one of the great features of some healthcare apps in remote areas. Additionally, users can also get healthcare tips from time to time through push notifications.
3. More than the doctor, the patient gets more benefits.
Scheduling appointment with the doctors or finding the right doctor in the nearby locality or having a video chat with the specialists, all these features are increasing the popularity of the health apps. These enhance the engagement of the patients, thus making health apps popular.
4. IoT collaboration for more power
IoT innovation makes the path for wearable devices to get connected with the application for better health condition managing. It is about to streamline the entire process. It offers great opportunity to share the health details and spread across the geographical borders.
5. Apart from helping doctors and patients, it has offered new business models too.
The cloud-based information storage system creates opportunities for more content dissemination which develop spaces for different healthcare industry business to get involved with the new generation mobile applications.
The healthcare application is the need of the hour. If you are planning to develop one, we are here to guide you.
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