HOW TO BUILD A MOBILE APP FOR PATIENTS HEALTH TRACKING?

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How to Build a Mobile app for Patients Health Tracking?

Mobile technology is quickly becoming one of the top preferred tools in medical care based on its affordability, ease of use and portability.

The medical mobile apps definitely make lives extremely easier not only for patients, but for doctors and paramedics as well.

There are 8 steps to build a mobile app for patients health tracking.

Read the full article “How to Build a Mobile app for Patients Health Tracking?” and lots of other useful posts in our blogTECSYNT

"To build a culture of health we will need tools that help people lead healthier lives. Wearable sensors and tracking devices have the potential to help people, and we need to learn more about how people engage with these devices to better understand how they can be maximized."

Deborah Bae, Senior Program Officer, RWJF

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mHealth (mobile health) industry market size projection from 2012 to 2020 (in billion U.S. dollars)

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Choose the problem you want to solve

STEP #1

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For which purpose you want to develop an app?

Will be for fitness, medical records of pressure measuring? Maybe it will be a helpful tool for deaf people or pregnant women?What problem in the medical sphere you plan to solve with your app?Your future app must be well-tested, well-established and be able to give accurate and precise results each time. You should see from the start if your idea is going to satisfy these requirements.

CHOOSE THE PROBLEM YOU WANT TO SOLVE

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mHealth app category share

Diagram by Antonio Carrasco, CEO at PLM

Research and analyze

STEP #2

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➜ See the pros and cons of other apps in your niche

➜ Discover different revenue models➜ Gather any available information about

your competitors➜ Sort through recent technological advances

in the market➜ Find out if your idea is unique or is it

already represented by a successful app

Don’t start the creating process until you have all the essential data. Then analyze all the problems you discovered and try to find a way to avoid them within your app.

RESEARCH AND ANALYZE

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Validate your idea

STEP #3

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1. Estimate all of your resources, budget and timeline. 2. Keep in mind that a medical app won’t cost you as

low as you wish, so it’s better to have some extra money for urgent changes or improvements.

3. Develop a suitable business plan and choose the right revenue models and metrics for your app along with the marketing campaign.

You can read more about marketing campaign and app’s metrics in our articles "7 Mobile Marketing Metrics. What to choose?" and “How To Start Mobile App Marketing Campaign”.

VALIDATE YOUR DATA

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Mobile Platforms & Devices

STEP #4

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CHOOSE THE PLATFORM

What app are you planning to build – native or hybrid (cross-platformed)?

The second option can help you reduce the cost, but the first one – is a way more reliable and technically trustworthy.TECSYNT

Design and Features

STEP #5

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The important part of your medical app success will be the unique UI/UX design.

Just imagine how many times during the day patients or doctors usually use their medical history records or checking the medical condition... A lot.

PROTOTYPE YOUR APP

In order to develop a great medical app, you need to design UI/UX in such way so the patient process flow will be as easy as possible.

This industry is patient-centric, therefore, everything you do must, first of all, consider the user experience of the patient.

There shouldn’t be anything negative in the whole design of the product, only positive UI, pics, colors, fonts, text etc.

About prototyping you can read in“5 Best Ways to Prototype your Mobile Project”

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General Hospital appsGeneral information, services, ER wait times, interactive events, social media

Physician Referral appsPhysician profiles, addresses and directions, physician lookup, request an appointment

Wellness appsHealth tracker, group exercise schedules, wellness tips

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Wayfinding appsGeofencing, beacons, 2D and 3D maps, location-based alerts, quick contacts

SOME FEATURES COMMON FOR MEDICAL APPS

SOME FEATURES COMMON FOR MEDICAL APPS

Outpatient Care/Cancer Care AppsTrack your treatment, care team, patient network, lab results

Medication Tracking appsMonitor dosage and intervals, medication and appointment reminders, log meals and eating habits, feelings tracker

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Pregnancy and Childbirth appsIllustrated pregnancy tracker, labor and birth guide, postpartum care, newborn Care

Urgent Care AppsDynamic wait times, ability to find nearby urgent care centers, contacts & directions, news & info, push notifications

Quality Management System

STEP #6

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Medical app development makes you highly responsible for the quality of the final product, because someone’s life would depend on its indications and functionality.

So, we insist for you to take into consideration Quality Management System under rules of which you should ensure that your app is safe, effective and secure for patients to use it.

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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The privacy of patient information

STEP #7

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When offering to app stores medical app its platform must be HIPAA-compliant.

What do you need to do to ensure this kind of protection?

➜ State-of-the-art password protection➜ Limited access to personal information➜ Data encryption to firewalls➜ Antivirus software➜ Digital signatures

The full spectrum of useful tools you can find in our article "HIPAA Compliant App Development. What Do You Need to Know About It?".

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability of Act (HIPAA)

Tests & Results Analysis

STEP #8

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You need to be perfectly sure, that your app is working properly. In another case – the improper functioning of your app could be fatal to your customers.

➜ Test the security and authenticity;➜ Test functional capabilities and healthcare

workflows;➜ Test geo-location services, if your app provides

them;➜ Test the data processing and inputs from

different devices;➜ Test the app for medical images displaying;➜ Test your app on different mobile platforms for

compatibility;➜ Run some usability tests to see how a real user

would use your app.

TEST & RESULTS ANALYSIS

HEALTH TRACKING APPS

ADVANTAGES

To build such app is difficult, but the benefits for users will be so appreciated, you hardly will be unsatisfied by your product good deeds for the patients

➜ High-quality healthcare apps allow to diagnose the symptoms and prepare for a medical emergency.

➜ Mobile apps improve physician workflows.➜ Mobile apps help with the patient engagement.➜ Health Tracking Apps provide the instant transfer of medical data

from a patient to doctor without an office visit.➜ Health Care Apps allows a patient to get doctor prescribed

medication➜ Expediting emergency room check-ins and reducing wait times.➜ Mobile apps lower the expenses on health caring and getting

more preventative with each day.➜ Medication reminders and push notifications. Control of the

patient health status.➜ An instant online visit to a doctor or medical advice and

assistance via the Internet.➜ The ability to get medical attention 24/7 any day of the week if

the case isn’t urgent, but disturbs the patient.

HEALTH TRACKING APPS ADVANTAGES

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"The healthcare industry is going to be revolutionized because you will have sensors at various points of your body measuring different things and a computer somewhere or maybe a doctor will be examining you all time."

- Marty Cooper, led the team at Motorola

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CONCLUSION

The medical mobile apps have to be build oriented on the user's needs only. Acting accordingly to their feedback will help you to minimize all risks and develop a really successful and favourable medical mobile app.

It’s truly mesmerising that we can create a mobile app for healthcare that possibly can save someone's life. Such apps definitely make lives extremely easier not only for patients, but for doctors and paramedics as well.

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