• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

The Tech Block

tech tips from tim the techie

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Business Tech
  • Finance Tech
  • Gaming
  • Home Tech
  • Phone
  • Travel Tech
  • Web
  • Contact Tim

Get Doctor’s Consultation Via An App

April 25, 2019

No more queues and scheduling appointment by phone. With the rapid growth of medical mobile market, many hospitals provide their service online these days. By establishing a seamless connection between patients and doctors, healthcare apps have brought medical industry to another level. Entrepreneurs all over the world invest into hospital mobile app development as well as doctor apps for private practices.

Due to this fact, there are a lot of types of healthcare apps on the market, from general hospital apps to diagnosis assistants. However, lately it is virtual consultations that are getting more and more recognition. Thanks to them, patients can receive a remote medical support with one tap on their phone.

Many people use doctor appointment apps because of their undoubted convenience. It has never been easier to schedule a visit to a doctor, check your medical record and get professional consultation via video call or chat at any time. Besides such service guarantees complete anonymity to patients. In turn, doctors provide treatment round the clock and get to grow their clients’ base. Moreover the significance of doctor consult apps rises even higher when patient’s life depends on it. With the help of such an app, a doctor can continuously check on the patient’s condition and take prompt actions in case of emergency.

Although healthcare mobile app development is a rather risky venture, because of the high competition, start-up companies still have a chance to enter the market by providing their own on-demand solution.

If you are planning to launch a doctor booking app, and make it to the top, make sure to add the following features to your product:

  • Online consulting: a patient can get in touch with a doctor 24/7 via an app
  • Appointment booking: a patient can see doctor’s schedule with available dates for appointment.
  • Medicine online purchase: users can buy prescribed pills from online pharmacy and order home delivery.
  • EMR storage: all medical records of a patient are kept on the app server.
  • In-app reminders: a patient and a doctor will get push notifications about upcoming appointment.
  • E-prescriptions: after the online appointment is over, a patient receives a list of prescribed medicine via a push-notification.
  • In-app automated billing: patient gets an invoice for the online consulting and pays within the app.
  • Health tracking: a doctor can track patient’s symptoms, monitor sugar level and blood pressure, etc.
  • In-built map: this feature shows routes to nearby emergency rooms and hospitals.

It is important to work out your business model at the early stages of app development. If you are planning to make money with your mobile service, think about possible ways to monetize it. The most popular monetization strategies for telemedicine apps are monthly / annual subscriptions and charging commission fee for each consultation. Also you can consider adding premium services to your healthcare app.

If you already have an app and you want the world to know about it and use it, acquiring an effective marketing strategy is a must. You can either advertise your app on the social media and forums, or present your product to the prospective users – doctors – and let them test your app for themselves, so that they could recommend it to their colleagues in the future. It is also a good idea to offer your potential customers additional benefits that come along with using your app.

To make your app popular among patients, first you need to gain their trust. Make sure that profiles of listed doctors contain detailed information about their education, field of work, years of experience, reviews of previously treated patients.

Last but not least, do not forget that your app has to be compliant with personal data protection regulations, such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the US and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in EU. Otherwise you may face severe fines for violating their requirements.

To read more on topics like this, check out the business tech category.

Tweet
Pin
Share
0 Shares

Categories: Business Tech

sidebar

Blog Sidebar

About Us

I’m Tim from The Tech Block. Tim Techy! haha. I’m all about gadgets, gaming and technology. I don’t just sit in my house all day playing around on gadgets, but they are very integrated into my everyday lifestyle. When I work out I use technology to track it, when I turn the heat on in my home, I use my computer to do it and when I travel, I take my fun techie stuff with me!

Popular Posts

Facebook

Tim's Tech Block

News Latter

Connect

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Recent Posts

  • Why Lear Capital Says Continued High Demand for New Cars Is Influencing Precious Metals’ Pricing and Availability
  • Is the S19 XP Hydro more efficient?
  • How to Create a Morning Routine
  • Government Translation Solutions: Revolutionizing Multilingual Intelligence Operations
  • How Solar Panels Can Provide Reliable Energy for Your Home

Recent Comments

    Archives

    • November 2023
    • October 2023
    • September 2023
    • August 2023
    • July 2023
    • June 2023
    • May 2023
    • April 2023
    • March 2023
    • February 2023
    • January 2023
    • December 2022
    • November 2022
    • October 2022
    • September 2022
    • August 2022
    • July 2022
    • June 2022
    • May 2022
    • April 2022
    • March 2022
    • February 2022
    • January 2022
    • December 2021
    • November 2021
    • October 2021
    • September 2021
    • August 2021
    • July 2021
    • June 2021
    • May 2021
    • April 2021
    • March 2021
    • February 2021
    • January 2021
    • December 2020
    • November 2020
    • October 2020
    • September 2020
    • August 2020
    • July 2020
    • June 2020
    • May 2020
    • April 2020
    • March 2020
    • February 2020
    • January 2020
    • December 2019
    • November 2019
    • October 2019
    • September 2019
    • August 2019
    • July 2019
    • June 2019
    • May 2019
    • April 2019
    • March 2019
    • February 2019
    • January 2019
    • December 2018
    • November 2018
    • October 2018
    • September 2018
    • August 2018
    • July 2018
    • June 2018
    • May 2018
    • April 2018
    • March 2018
    • February 2018

    Categories

    • Blog
    • Business Tech
    • Finance Tech
    • Gaming
    • Home Tech
    • Phone
    • Travel Tech
    • Web

    Meta

    • Log in
    • Entries feed
    • Comments feed
    • WordPress.org

    Footer

    About Us

    I’m Tim from The Tech Block. Tim Techy! haha. I’m all about gadgets, gaming and technology. I don’t just sit in my house all day playing around on gadgets, but they are very integrated into my everyday lifestyle. When I work out I use technology to track it, when I turn the heat on in my home, I use my computer to do it and when I travel, I take my fun techie stuff with me! Read More…

    Popular Posts

    Featured Post

    Why Lear Capital Says Continued High Demand for New Cars Is Influencing Precious Metals’ Pricing and Availability

    Is the S19 XP Hydro more efficient?

    How to Create a Morning Routine

    Government Translation Solutions: Revolutionizing Multilingual Intelligence Operations

    How Solar Panels Can Provide Reliable Energy for Your Home

    Facebook

    Tim's Tech Block

    Copyright ©2018 The Tech Block | All Rights Reserved