How mHealth Solutions can Help Healthcare & Medical Industries in 2020

The digitalization took place in almost every industry, healthcare continues to transform digitally. The providers are now adopting new mobility solutions to increase patient engagement, manage the work-flow and reduce the cost of operations.

m-Health ( mobile Healthcare ) or Mobility solutions in the Healthcare industry rapidly transforming the patient care experience and allowing Healthcare providers to offer services to the patient in a connected and collaborative way.

In this case, If you are a Healthcare Service provider, you should adopt the m-Health solutions to make your service futureproof.

Why m-Health is Essential?

According to Statista, it shows the number of Smartphone users in India only.

With the increasing number of smartphones and internet users, today’s patients became digital natives. 80% of them using mobile devices and various healthcare applications to consumer healthcare information and services.

mHealth enables the primary to follow up care, Healthcare support, which increases patient engagement.

Approximately 66% of patients are ready to adopt mHealth and technology into their treatment plan (PatientEngagementHIT).

Benefits of Launching your own mHealth Application

In this connected world, if you want to offer better healthcare services to your patient and want to make your business futureproof, Launching your own branded mHealth application is what you should think about.

How you can offer a better experience to your patient?

• You can show your entire doctor directory in this app.
• You can offer self- appointment scheduling to your patients.
• You can show all other services, healthcare packages in this app i.e registered patients can easily browse and book any of your services.
• The real-time Push Notification enables you to share any latest information about your service instantly.
• In the near future, you can offer telemedicine services through your app.

Benefits :

• Time-saving:
  Let’s take an example, at a large medical facility that typically schedules approximately 100 appointments daily. Each appointment call is fielded by an administrative support staffer, who spends an average of four minutes on the phone. This equates to an average of 400 minutes — or almost seven hours — of time spend each day just to booking appointments over the phone.
• Monetary-savings:
  Time is money, so here the savings of time ultimately translates into money. A scheduling system can eliminate the need for a staff member. Additionally, the aforementioned automated appointment reminders can also create monetary savings by reducing the number of “no-shows” who fail to make their scheduled appointments. Surveys have shown that these types of reminders can decrease this number by 50 percent.
• Increase Revenue:
  The mHealth solutions can increase your revenue by showing your Healthcare packages to your application user. It will reduce the cost of marketing your healthcare packages. You can show/list your healthcare packages in your application and with the help of in-app payment solutions, the number of Healthcare Packages/insurance sales will be increased.
• Brand Positioning :
  With your own m-Health application you can boost the visibility of your Healthcare brand in the market which offers seamless hasslefree services to their patients.
• Better Patient Care & Feedback :
  The healthcare industry is rapidly transforming with the digitalization and with the changing demand of Patients, to provide better patient care experience, after appointment support and collecting feedbacks is the utmost priority to cater best healthcare solutions than your competitors.

What to look for in building your application :

Hostcode’s solutions take mHealth apps to the next level, allowing healthcare companies to deliver personalized, omnichannel, and searchable content directly to their audience’s device. An integrated health communications solution that can transform your business across patient engagement, marketing, internal communications, reporting, and workplace health & safety.

While building your own mobile healthcare application you should look for,

1. Features & Functionalities of the Application.
2. Infrastructure & Security.
3. Costing.
4. Support & Maintenance.
5. Development Time Period.

1.Features & Functionalities :

Maximum Features and functionalities applications will be inbuilt, which includes along with the customized UI- UX and your logo.

Hostcode Developed mHealth App for Doctorzy

For Patient [ Mobile App ]

• Patient profile creation & easy login.
• Doctor Search by Category, Experience & Other advanced filters.
• Appointment Scheduling.
• Appointment History / Treatment History.
• Appointment Reminder.
• In-App Payment.
• Showcasing your other Services like Nurse Booking, Healthcare Packages, Diagnostic Services.
• Healthcare Article, contents.
• Upload Health-related Documents.

For Provider [ Web Panel ]

• Secure Logins.
• Manage bookings.
• Manage Patients.
• Manage Doctors & Sub Admins.
• Manage Article, Ads, Push Notifications.

For Doctors [ mobile app ]

• Doctor Profile.
• Appointment List / Schedule.
• Manage Appointments.
• View Patient Details.

Our m-Healthcare application comes with all the above-mentioned features in the bundle, where one application is for the Outpatient, one for the doctors and another Web panel for the Admin. If you have any customized requirements, we have an expert development team to enable new customized features and functionality in your mobile application.

2.Infrastructure & Security :

Security is a must when it comes to an online scheduling system. Hostcode incorporates the latest security measures and practices, such as
secure server databases, data storage, and back-up procedures,
processes related to failover and federal regulations, as well as
the aforementioned HIPAA-compliant practices.

3.Costing :

The cost of application development for medical, healthcare and wellness facilities typically is determined by the scope of the operations and what the infrastructure and functionalities will be used for. Hostcode offers affordable, cost-effective solutions to healthcare providers.

4.Customer Support & Training — Maintenance:

Hostocde assures Omni-Chanel support to the clients 24x7 and provides on-demand training to the admins and respective staffs to handle the application.
Though Hostcode offers Free 90 Days support after launching the application and after that, a cost-effective affordable maintenance plan can ensure the monitoring of the system, Version Update, optimizing the code and database and securing the portals.

5.Development Time Period :

Usually, Hostcode deploys the application within 45 days of signing the agreements with all inbuilt features. If there are any customized requirements the deployment period of the application will depend on those requirements which we can mutually fix while agreement.

Wrapping up

Introducing m-health applications will have a great impact on your healthcare and medical services. This can transform your business across patient engagement, marketing, internal communications. Therefore, to find out whether your hospital mobile app has earning potential, there is no need to spend a fortune on development. You can start your project as MVP with only basic features and integrate others with time.

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