Joe Tuan
Joe Tuan
Founder, Topflight Apps
December 28, 2023

The Unild States is on the brink of a catastrophic shortage of doctors. It is forecasted that by 2032, there will be a shortfall of 46,900 to 121,900 physicians.

This doesn’t account for other healthcare disciplines such as mental health professionals. It is estimated that there are approximately 30 psychologists per 100,000 people and 15 psychiatrists per 100,000 people.

What do these alarming statistics have to do with telehealth apps, you ask?

doctor touching telehealth app platform

Telehealth holds the promise of mitigating the impact of this lack of supply of healthcare professionals and diminished access to healthcare services. It opens doors for new possibilities where healthcare providers can extend their coverage and make a more meaningful impact on the population with immediate results.

Telemedicine app development is reshaping how we perceive a traditional doctor’s office visit, pushing the boundaries of healthcare by enabling patients to consult with their physicians from the comfort of their homes, without the need for physical travel or waiting room delays, even in rural areas.

In this telemedicine app development guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about how to develop a telemedicine app.

 

Top Takeaways:

  • Telemedicine raised $4.3 billion in 2020, making it the top digital health category in the market and spurring innovation in the telemedicine app development sector.
  • There are plenty of ready-made video-calling and chatting tools like Agora and PubNub available to expedite telehealth app development.
  • The cost of custom developing a telehealth app may vary from US$59,000 and all the way to US$149,000, and requires extensive planning right from figuring out platform and tech stack to UI/UX design and maintenance.

 

1. Telemedicine Trends

2. Telehealth Challenges

3. What Functions Do You Need and What Tools Can You Use?

4. 5 Telemedicine App Development Steps

5. Cost to develop a telehealth app

6. White Label Telemedicine Solutions

 

Telemedicine Trends

The COVID-19 pandemic transferred the healthcare services landscape in a way that neither iPhone nor Web 2.0 nor consumer wearables have managed to do in the last two decades.

Doctors and patients alike, affected by the quarantine, embraced telemedicine as the technology that keeps them busy and healthy. Virtual patient care is no longer the privilege of millennials — the virus has encouraged everybody to up their tech-savvy game. And as a result, telemedicine application development has become a significant part of practice for many healthcare organizations.

Before you go and create a telehealth app, let’s look at some of the trends shaping the telemedicine industry today.

Market Overview

According to Markets and Markets, the telemedicine market in 2022 was worth $87 globally. And there are no signs of stopping: telehealth is expected to reach $286 billion by 2027.

telemedicine adoption rateImage credit: Statista, (all image rights belong to Statista Inc.)

A recent report by Statista, released in February 2023, shows that adoption of telemedicine is on the rise. As the pandemic started dwindling down by the end of 2020, we saw a little less adoption. And the trajectory starting from 2021 and into 2022 crearly indicates that doctors and patients are becoming more and more familiar with the use of telemedicine software.

In 2022, the increase in adoption came from these channels:

      • Live phone consults
      • Live video consults
      • Health app or website consults

As you can see now is a great time to build a telemedicine system. In fact, healthcare providers turning to telehealth platform development today are playing the catch-up game. Software development is a priority for all industries to keep the pace.

Telemedicine is inclusive

Underserved communities, seniors with chronic diseases, and other vulnerable groups of population along with tech-savvy younger people looking for a healthy lifestyle — a vast population is going to adopt and rely on telemedicine. But here’s something to ponder: what about the ‘pain points’ these diverse groups might encounter while using a telemedicine platform? Are we ready to address those to make their telemedicine experience smooth and user-friendly?

That means the companies working on telemedicine solutions would need to sort out another layer of complexity with telemedicine software development. How do you create a telemedicine app that is equally well understood and navigated by different target audiences?

Vertical growth

Telehealth is rapidly expanding beyond e-consulting with a physician. As patients are getting accustomed to the new technology, there appears the need to cover the whole spectrum of healthcare services. That brings to life new, niche telemedicine products, such as teledermatology apps, telenursing apps, telepsychiatry, and other types of health related virtual care apps.

making telehealth accessible

Better insurance coverage

Insurance companies and federal health care programs are stepping up to cover care administered by means of telehealth apps. For instance, Medicare already covers some types of telemedicine services and remote patient monitoring. Note that you can build a telemedicine platform integrated with insurance services. Isn’t it exciting to see how mobile health is transforming not just our access to medical care but also how we manage our insurance needs?

Read Also: Insurance App Development Guide

Remote patient monitoring

Remote patient monitoring (RPM), as a distinct subset of telehealth, is garnering wider adoption as providers seek to push back patient readmission rates. RPM apps have proven their effectiveness in helping doctors watch patients’ recovery or illness progression while they stay at home, in a remote care setting.

Related: Guide to Building a Remote Patient Monitoring app

AI

Artificial intelligence is a change agent. Applied to patient healthcare data, the technology can assist medical personnel by making predictions about patients’ well-being. That results in timely and accurate treatment plans.

Related: Deep Learning in Healthcare: Use Cases and Case Studies, AI App Development Guide

Benefits of telemedicine apps

Why would you build a telemedicine app for Android and iOS? Training a new doctor can take up to 18 years. And one of the benefits of telemedicine is that it eliminates this waiting period for patients in communities with limited access to healthcare professionals by linking them to other physicians from all over the country, on-demand.

telemedicine apps benefits

Let’s look at some other benefits telemedicine has to offer for patients and care providers (especially, in a mobile healthcare aspect).

Patient benefits

      • On-demand access to healthcare specialists
      • Authorized permission to message the doctor
      • No need to travel to a clinic
      • Lower cost of service
      • Ease of use (accessible on any device)

Provider benefits

      • Freedom to collaborate with remote colleagues on patient cases
      • Access to home-care and discharged patients
      • Ability to treat more patients simultaneously
      • Integration with EHR and other clinical systems
      • Fewer cancellations and missed appointments

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Top 3 successful telehealth apps

Before you build a telehealth application, let’s review some notable incumbents in the field for inspiration.

Teladoc

teladoc logo

Market Cap: $12.2b

Founded in 2002, Teladoc is one of the two publicly traded telemedicine companies in the US (the other one is SmileDirectClub, a teledentistry company). The company provides patients and doctors with easy-to-use mobile apps for iOS and Android and offers its telehealth platform as a white-label solution.

The Teladoc notable app features include:

      • Scheduling a meeting
      • Mobile payments
      • Video and audio calls
      • Integration with Healthkit and Google Fit
      • Medical history

Doctor On Demand

doctor on demand logoFunds raised: $160m

Doctor on Demand is a telemedicine app that connects patients with a variety of healthcare professionals. Similar to Teladoc, the company offers its customers apps on both mobile platforms. Patients can schedule a video appointment from their phones and tablets.

Notable features:

      • Upfront pricing
      • Medication management
      • Push notifications
      • Video calls
      • Healthkit and Google Fit

Related: How to Develop a Doctor’s Appointment App, On-Demand Doctor App Development

 

MDLIVE

mdlive logo

Funds raised: $124m

MDLIVE is a telehealth service company that was founded in 2009 in Sunrise, Florida. MDLIVE is a serious player in the telemedicine space, especially after it partnered with Walgreen’s to step up its meds prescription options.

Notable features:

      • ePrescribe integration
      • Video calls
      • Health records
      • Instant messaging
      • Mobile payments

Related Article: The Best Telemedicine Apps

Of course, there are many other types of healthcare apps with telemedicine features that focus on different care aspects (therapy, psychology, etc.), but we won’t cover them all here for the sake of brevity.

Telehealth Challenges

Despite shocking stats for telemedicine apps adoption (on track to top 200 million e-visits this year vs. expected 36 million), there are still some challenges with creating a telemedicine app that developers and healthcare providers have to overcome to ensure sustainable growth of the technology.

That’s right – even with all the excitement and potential, when it comes to actually getting down to business and trying to build a telehealth app, it’s not always smooth sailing – we’ve got a few hurdles to jump over first!”

Language Barriers

Some communities are composed of people who don’t have a perfect command of English.

 

language barriers a challenge with telemedicine

That can negatively impact their access to quality healthcare services. It’s not because care providers are inefficient, but because patients are unable to communicate their conditions and symptoms accurately as a result of the language barrier.

Technology now exists to translate communication in real-time so both the doctor and the patient can understand each other in their own native language. 

This would drastically improve each patient’s safety and safeguard against misdiagnoses, wrong prescriptions, and mismanagement.

Do you need to be HIPAA compliant?

Yes. As with every covered entity, you’re going to be handling Protected Health Information. You’ll need to be HIPAA compliant at all stages. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act levels the playing field for all participants.

 

hipaa compliant

Imaging such as MRIs and CT scans, doctor’s notes, lab results are all PHI. As such, you need to use HIPAA-as-a-Service hosting services provided by companies like AWS and GAE while building a telemedicine platform.

Related: Building a HIPAA Complaint App Made Easy

Why not just use Skype instead of a Telehealth app?

Skype has not signed a BAA and does not require the encryption of protected health information. As such, it is not HIPAA Compliant.

A hacker can potentially listen in and steal PHI, causing severe damage to your organization. We do not recommend the use of Skype in place of a secure telehealth app.

What Functions Do You Need and What Tools Can You Use?

In order for your app to deliver complete telehealth services, you need to have the following basic features on your telemedicine app. Depending on whether you start with a minimum viable product (MVP) or continue building a full-fledged telemedicine app, there will be different features in your app.

MVP feature set

An MVP version of a telemedicine app needs to provide users with bare-bones features, just enough to turn virtual care into reality. Let’s briefly review this essential functionality and the benefits of healthcare solutions of this type.

Secure Video Calling

This is the most important service of the app. Patients and providers need to see and talk to each other securely in real-time which is where HIPAA compliant video conferencing and messaging come into play (a must for all healthcare applications dealing with PHI). Visual cues make a big difference in identifying signs of illness. The video needs to be of high quality with low latency. 

Also, you may be interested in how to build a video chat app.

Related: Build a Video Calling Application

secure video calling with telemedicine apps

 

Peer-to-Peer chat

Providers and patients must have the ability to send rich messages to each other to exchange information before, during, and after a call. This is a useful tool for healthcare providers to give written instructions and reach their patients when not able to call.

Also, patients can write information that can’t be easily understood during a call due to differences in pronunciation or interruptions in network connectivity. Or they could schedule appointments via messaging.

Also Read: Guide to building a messaging application

Backend  database

If you are building an app for neurology, you will need a secure repository for patient information, medical history, labs, and imaging. This will also handle user authentication.

Appointment scheduling

An appointment tool or patient scheduling tool so people can book appointments with their chosen provider. Correspondingly, if the user can book an appointment, the admin staff should be able to manage appointments (cancel, reschedule, etc.)

Data encryption

Do you ever wonder about the safety of your personal data when using a healthcare mobile app? How secure is your personal health information, such as your heart rate, when it’s being transmitted over the internet?

Well, there’s good news! One of the key features of our telemedicine app is Data Encryption. This feature ensures that your personal health information is always protected, providing the highest level of privacy and security.

Those are the core features of any telemedicine app, but what about other telemedicine app features that will make your solution stand out?

Advanced Feature Set

Going beyond MVP with its key features, you may start adding features that further improve the quality of care and bring more comfort to patients and healthcare professionals.

Group chats and calls

Group chats and video calls are necessary to allow a doctor to add their colleagues to an ongoing call with a patient for a quick, on-the-spot consultation. Doctors can also hop on a group call to review lab test results during a live chat.

video call via laptop with doctor

Integration with EHR

It goes without saying that accurate patient history is a must for any healthcare organization. Being able to sync patient info and medical records gathered during remote consultations directly to an electronic health records system can save med personnel a lot of time.

VR for telepsychiatry

Mental health sessions can be enhanced with a virtual settng that helps establish trust between specialists and patients.

Related: How to Create a Mental Health App

E-prescriptions

A telehealth app may incorporate an e-prescription component to expedite the process of prescribing meds and simplify prescription management.

Related: Pharmacy App Development Guide

Mobile payments

To make the process of joining a call for patients as seamless as possible, you might need to integrate a payment gateway. That way, patients will be able to pay for the services right in the app, before a call. Many telemedicine apps implement this functionality via a web view to bypass Apple/Google commissions and allow patients to pay per visit or as a subscription (e.g., per month).

Integration with peripheral IoT devices

Certain medical specialties may benefit from connecting a telehealth app to a medical device like intraoral cameras used in teledentistry or other mobile devices/sensors. This option definitely helps providers come up with accurate diagnoses.

Related: IoT App Development: The Ultimate Guide

Integration with Healthkit and GoogleFit

To make sure doctors have a full understanding of a patient’s condition, it makes sense to integrate a telehealth app with Apple’s Healthkit and Google’s GoogleFit. These services supply all relevant patient health data.

Built-in chatbot

Chatbots can be an excellent tool for triaging simple cases before a call and as a help desk alternative.

To learn more, we recommend reading our articles about chatbots in medicine and how to build your own chatbot.

Provider-specific options

You may want to include addional functionality for doctors, e.g., charts for easier disease management or a case management system.

Module for medical assistants

Most advanced telehealth apps sometimes include a separate UI for nurses, medical professionals, and other medical assistants that may join the call to update patient data, notes, and everything else that doctors can absolutely live without (for example, administrative tasks).

5 Telemedicine App Development Steps

Are you ready for a detailed, step-by-step tutorial to building high-quality telemedicine applications? Buckle up, because we’re about to dive deep into the process, exploring every critical aspect from choosing the right platform to deploying and maintaining your app. Here’s what you can expect:

      • Step 1: Choose a platform (mobile/desktop/etc) – The first crucial decision in your journey.
      • Step 2: Design the perfect telehealth app  – Creating an intuitive and user-friendly experience is key.
      • Step 3: Choose APIs you can use to integrate into your app – Let’s talk about the technical backbone of your telemedicine app.
      • Step 4: Test your telemedicine app – Because nothing less than perfect will do.
      • Step 5: Deploy and maintain your app – It’s not just about launching; it’s about ensuring long-term success.

Are you excited yet? Let’s get started!

Step 1: Choose a platform

Before you commission your designers and start coding, you need to decide which platforms to custom develop your app for whether you’re building a fitness app, or a meditation app, etc. iOS and Android for mobile, web and native for desktop. Your target geography and app functions will direct your choices. 

If you remember our recent article about making health apps for the iPhone, we discussed why an iOS-only approach works best for the USA, and an Android-first approach for the rest of the world. 

For the sake of this article, we’re focusing on the US market. So, how do you approach developing a telemedicine platform?

Mobile: iOS or Android?

ios vs android

Have you considered support for iOS/Android?

The iPhone makes up for 55% of the total smartphone user base in the USA with Android accounting for the remaining 45%.

These statistics may sway you to build an iOS-only version of your telehealth app because iOS users are known to spend up to three times more than Android users. And the development of telehealth mobile app for Android may follow after iOS.

But at 45%, Android users are too many to be ignored, so you need to factor this into your long-term planning. In fact, when you think about telemedicine mobile app development, it’s clear that catering to both sides of the fence can really pay off in the long run.

Naturally, React Native is almost always the most sensible platform to begin with for healthcare application development, given the likely need to cater to both iOS and Android devices.

Related: Swift or React Native: Which to Choose? 

Choosing the right platform for your mobile app

Desktop: native or web?

You will need a web app for patients who cannot access an iOS or Android device, as well as for physicians to manage their workflows and patient files.

The cost of building a web app and a native app is almost the same. In fact, a web app can be converted into a native desktop app that works on Mac, Windows, and Linux using tools like Electron. Slack is an example of software built with Electron. Another consideration on your list is mobile web – should the application be accessible through mobile browsers?

Choosing between SaaS and custom build

A SaaS solution does not give you the liberty to personalize the front-end experience beyond a logo and name change. Other than that, the app is identical to all their other customers’ apps.

users viewing app code on screens

If you want to control exactly how your app looks and functions, you’ll need a custom-built solution. In this case, say, telenursing app development services from healthcare app development experts may come handy.

A custom mobile app is developed using open source or paid APIs. This gives you granular control over your entire app. By using TURN servers and protocols such as WebRTC to handle your videotelephony, we can create a telehealth platform that works just the way you want it.

Is SaaS cheaper than a custom build?

SaaS solutions typically support the business model based on a monthly subscription fee. They can be deployed relatively quickly because there is little to no programming involved. The monthly payment is usually adjusted according to user volumes. This is an overhead you have to maintain indefinitely.

SaaSs may initially appear to be the cheaper option, but it can become the more expensive choice once you outgrow the capabilities of your SaaSs product. When you reach that stage, you’ll be back searching for a custom solution to meet your growing business needs.

Also, you have no control as to when or what changes your SaaSs provider makes to your app. They can remove features and update policies on a whim. And because they have to support many clients, this may lead to some uncomfortable compromises for everyone. 

Yes, a custom-built app may be more expensive in the short term because of development and maintenance costs, but you get more value out of it in the long run. As part of this strategy you’ll have to create a mobile telehealth app and a web dashboard for providers.

Carefully weigh the cost-to-benefit ratio and product-market fit before deciding which way to go. A custom-built app offers absolute authority over every aspect of your app, including branding.

Step 2: Design the perfect telehealth app

User experience design

The user experience design is the most critical aspect of the entire health app design phase.

ux design

Many entrepreneurs come up with great app ideas and build apps that work very well from a technical standpoint but end up failing because the user experience is out of touch with the target audience. 

It is not enough to have the right technology. You need to understand the people you are trying to help.

The UX design stage is where this can be prevented.

You will be designing two sides of your app – a provider backend and a front-facing patient side.

Be sure to simplify the onboarding process as much as possible by limiting the number of screens to a maximum of three. Too much information and you could make it difficult for your users. The copy must be written in 3rd grade English. Everyone can understand that level of English. You’re not trying to impress users. You want them to do exactly as you say without second-guessing.

Time spent on every call will be charged, so strive to make the app as easy to use as possible. The provider and patient need to concentrate on the consultation, not trying to figure out how to navigate and use your app.

After your UX wireframes are completed, you need to set up a focus group and conduct user testing. Get user feedback, revise the UI design according to their recommendations. Repeat the process until you are satisfied.

Once this stage is complete, you’re ready for the next one – User Interface Design.

User Interface Design

The User Interface Design stage adds skin to the UX wireframes. Colors, buttons, fonts, and all other visual aspects of the app come to life in this stage of mobile application development.

ui design

Different colors and button sizes need to be tested. User behavior is affected by colors and the position of components on a screen. The UI must then be converted into a working prototype using a process similar to our rapid prototyping process and also subjected to user testing.

Like the UX stage, revisions must be made as needed until you are satisfied.

Please note that this is but a brief glimpse of the whole design process. For a more in-depth look, please read our 7-Step Ultimate Guide to Mobile App Design. I highly recommend that you check it out.

Step 3: Choose APIs you can use to integrate into your app

Building a telehealth app in the absence of market-ready APIs can easily take 1 to 2 years. But with the components now readily available in the market, a telehealth app can be built in 3-6 months.

This doesn’t diminish the fact that it is still a very difficult and time-consuming task to make third-party APIs work as desired (make sure you work with a tech-savvy project manager). Let’s take a look at some of the leading ones:

VSee SDK

VSee SDK is a rich telemedicine API that integrates end-to-end encrypted video calls into your mobile app for iOS and Android, as well as native apps on Mac and PC.

It’s HIPAA compliant and has its own server-client, so you don’t need to provision a server to set it up. It drastically reduces the technical workload, allowing you to focus on user experience and interface design.

VSee SDK telemedicine development tool modules

Image credit: VSee

However, the drawback is that it’s not open source, and there’s a significant cost barrier to get the customizable codebase. Access to the codebase can cost as much as $20,000. Failure to get that would mean you have to settle for their SaaSs option, which provides no personalization besides a name and logo.

VIDYO

This API allows you to integrate real-time communication capabilities into your app on multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android. 

It has built-in text chat, so you don’t need to use a separate text chat API. The back-end also supports screen share as well as multiparty video calls for group video conferencing.

Vidyo’s not an open-source product. It offers minimal customization because they emphasize embedding their software into your app. That makes it similar to a SaaSs product with limitations to customization.

WebRTC

WebRTC is a free and open-source platform that enables real-time communication in web and native apps. It has simple APIs that have been optimized to transmit audio, video, and data. Supported browsers are Firefox, Opera, and Chrome on desktop and Android.

Native support is also available for Android and iOS. macOS and Windows are not supported.

The setup of this API is more involved than the others, but it’s very customizable.

OpenTok > Vonage

OpenTok is a cloud-based WebRTC platform. While WebRTC is an open-source, the software that powers OpenTok is not. With that being said, it offers all the customization potential you’d have on your own WebRTC deployment.

Vonage telemedicine software development tools

Image credit: Vonage Video API

Owned and developed by Vonage, OpenTok also allows you to integrate video, voice, text messaging, and screen sharing into your app on the web, iOS, Android, and Windows. It doesn’t support macOS.

OpenTok supports HIPAA-compliant app development. The development company building your app is responsible for configuring the app per HIPAA requirements and choosing the appropriate tech stack.

Twilio 

Dr+ On Demand is powered by Twilio Programmable Video API. It works on all browsers without users installing any plugin and on iOS and Android.

It integrates with platform APIs like iOS CallKit, ARKit, and more. This makes it very versatile with many possible functionalities you can add to your app. It’s incredibly agile and can easily be scaled from starter to enterprise instantly. 

Twilio boasts a lower latency than all other available platforms, claiming up to 50% better video quality.

Twilio also has APIs for SMS messaging, voice calls, text chat, email, fax, and even WhatsApp. Of all platforms, Twilio is the most robust and offers the best integration options.

Acuity

acuity appointment scheduling

 

Acuity has been designed to support the healthcare industry’s needs and, as such, is HIPAA-compliant. You’ll need a Powerhouse plan for you to enter into a BAA with Acuity Scheduling.

How do you or your development team select the right APIs?

This depends on your choice of platform and what functions you need. The best combination, however, is using React Native as your platform, Twilio — for video and chat. The chat must be encrypted with Virgil Security’s end-to-end encryption SDK.

Step 4: Test your telemedicine app

We can’t stress enough how important that stage is. Making sure your app works flawlessly is a huge milestone in the telehealth app development journey. You should have your app developers execute peer code reviews. At the same time, the QA team carries out unit tests on various devices.

Even though a properly setup QA process implies frequent testing after each sprint, do plan for a final quality assurance round that includes regression testing and covers everything you’ve already tested during previous sprints. We recommend performing stress testing early on during telemedicine platform development and certainly before the launch to see if the app can hold an inflow of new users.

Related: Complete Guide to QA Testing 

Step 5: Deploy and maintain your app

Finally, once the app has been developed, it’s time to move it to a live environment and into the app stores where customers can download it. Now you’re fully ready for starting a telemedicine app.

IOS and Android receive updates every year. It’s essential to update the app accordingly to make sure it continues providing the best user experience and vigilant data security.

That’s the gist of the development process for creating a telemedicine application.

Also Read: How to build a medical startup and succeed in healthcare

White Label Telemedicine Solutions

If you desperately need to deploy a telehealth solution, ready-made telehealth solutions come to the rescue. There are solutions on the market that include AI options to help you implement the most critical features of virtual care:

      • user authentication
      • scheduling
      • video calling
      • voice calling
      • rea-time chat

Such off-the-shelf customizable components can trim your time to market from 9 months to just a 1-2 months, depending on the level of customization you need.

These components are designed and developed to provide you with:

      • A sleek and intuitive UI/UX for both web and mobile platforms
      • Effortless compatibility with each components
      • Seamless incorporation into popular tech stacks (e.g., NodeJS, ReactJS, ReactNative)
      • Consistent and dependable performance at scale
      • HIPAA compliance
      • Robust security measures/ data protection
      • Quality control
      • Features that meet the majority of user needs and match those of leading SaaS providers
      • Fully customizable user experience and functionality

How Much Does It Cost to Develop a Telehealth Application

The cost of developing a telehealth app may vary from US$80,000 and all the way to US$349,000, depending on its complexity. Teladoc-like app development will easily run into millions of dollars because it’s a huge platform for virtually all platforms and lots of APIs.

On the lower end, we are talking cross-platform mobile apps that reuse as much as possible from a rather simple web telemedicine app. Also, remember that no-code telehealth app development is a perfect shortcut that saves a lot of money and expedites time to market. This approach will help you keep the telemedicine app development cost on a lower side.

And on the higher end, we mean an advanced web platform with native mobile apps specifically optimized for smartphones and tablets. How long it takes to develop your app will depend on various factors like the features needed, cross platform vs native, where in the development stage you are and more.

Hopefully, this info helps you answer “How much does it cost to develop a telemedicine app?”

screenshot sharing patient details and profile

Time to Make a Telemedicine App

Now that you know how to develop a telehealth app and what it costs, it’s time to custom build your app. At TopFlight Apps, we specialize in building health apps for iOS, Android, and the web. We’ve proven our salt’s worth and helped health startups like Xzevn, Smarter Symptom Tracker, and RingRx create successful businesses by building robust apps that meet and exceed their needs. 

Do you have a telehealth app project? We’d like to help you with it. Explore our telemedicine website development services and get in touch here. We’re happy to help you build your own telemedicine application.

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[This blog was originally published in June 2021 but has been updated for more recent content]

Frequently Asked Questions

 

What does an average telemedicine app consist of?

A mobile/desktop/web app for patients, a back end with a database, a web app for app admins, and a mobile/desktop/web app for doctors.

How long does it take to develop a telemedicine app?

Between 3 and 6 months, depending on how many features you’d want upon initial release.

How to make a telemedicine app within a tight timeframe?

Use ready-made API and SDKs for a video chat and messaging.

How do I make a telehealth app secure?

Follow HIPAA compliance guidelines, use SSL, two-factor authentication or one-time passwords, encrypt at rest and in transit, use on-device biometric authentication.

Can I develop a telehealth solution just as a mobile app, without the web component?

Yes, but remember that there will be a web back end that a mobile telemedicine app can’t operate without. You will need website development to manage the telehealth application.

Can I develop a cross-platform telemedicine app?

Yes, however, the user experience can be hampered if you envision fancy animations and use of hardware components. In that case, we recommend developing a telehealth app natively.

Joe Tuan

Founder, Topflight Apps
Founder of Topflight Apps. We built apps that raised $165M+ till date. On a mission to fast-forward human progress by decentralizing healthcare and fintech.
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