Konstantin Kalinin
Konstantin Kalinin
Head of Content
February 29, 2024

We sincerely hope that you’ve set out to build a healthcare app because you’ve identified a genuine pain point that a medical app can solve. Not because another smarty-pants is heralding the billion-dollar mhealth industry.

Our experience (helping startups raise over $188M) proves that a healthcare product is successful when its founders are truly passionate about improving people’s lives.

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Let’s say you’ve figured out the passion and the industry’s pain points. Do you also know the steps you need to take to develop a healthcare app that will change people’s lives?

Well, if anything, skim through our guide and make sure you’re covering all the bases. We’ll answer the most frequent questions on how to create a medical app.

Table of Contents:

1. Healthcare Applications Overview

2. Types of Medical Apps

3. Top 5 Successful Healthcare Apps

4. Benefits of Healthcare Apps For Doctors And Patients

5. Must-Have Features in a Health Application

6. Next-Gen Features in Healthcare Application

7. Monetization Models of a Healthcare Application

8. The 5 Steps to Build a Medical App

9. How Much Does it Cost to Create a Healthcare App?

10. Our Experience in Developing Healthcare Applications

Healthcare Applications Overview

If you are planning to make a medical app, it’s worth knowing what’s happening in the market. 2020 definitely made history as the year of COVID-19. The coronavirus pandemic made quite a splash not only in our lives but also in the health apps market. Every aspect of healthcare that has to do with telemedicine, AI, and remote patient monitoring (RPM) got a huge boost (up nearly 300% in investment, according to CB Insights).

In 2021, digital healthcare innovations have continued to attract even more capital, with total funding almost doubling from the beginning of 2020 to $34,7 billion.

Sectors that have managed to reach new record-highs in healthcare funding include:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Telemedicine
  • Mental health
  • Digital therapeutics
  • Omics

Healthcare executives continue focusing on improving the patient experience by investing in development of telemedicine, EHR interoperability, and patient portals.

As doctors and patients are looking for new ways to connect while keeping their distance, telehealth apps will continue to dominate the space. I’m sure we’ll see more telemedicine and RPM solutions in the near future, but let’s take a look at what’s happening with healthcare apps in the stores right now.

According to Statista, there were 88,000 mobile health apps in Google Play and Apple’s App Store combined, and some random research into health-related applications claimed 325,000.

healthcare apps in Google Play

Image credit: Statista

Related: How to Develop a Telehealth App

In recent times, people can choose from over 100,000 mobile apps for their smartphones, and admittedly,  that’s a lot of apps to compete against. At the same time, if you check the top 100 ranking health products in both stores, you won’t notice much versatility. You’ll be scrolling through lots and lots of fitness applications, calorie trackers, period trackers, and meditation products before you get to a decent telemedicine solution like Healow or Babylon.
Top charts in Google Play: Health and fitness apps
What’s more, the sum of downloads for the top eight telemedicine apps doesn’t even scratch the surface of what the health & fitness categories generate. So focusing on the meditation and fitness areas will probably get you further if you’re targeting the general public.

Read Also Our Guide How to Build a Fitness App

And if you came up with an idea to cater to your patients, then there’s no need to look at the trending products. Just make sure you’re adequately fulfilling your customers’ unique needs.
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Types of Medical Apps

If we look at different mobile medical solutions available today, we’ll see many options gravitating towards three audiences: patients, medical personnel, and the administration. It certainly helps to know these before developing a health app.

Health Apps for Patients

  • Appointment scheduling and reminders
  • Self-diagnosing
  • Habit tracking
  • Fitness and wellness
  • Social networking
  • Telehealth
  • Mental health
  • IoT medical products
  • Women’s health

Related: How to Build a Patient Portal App 

Health Apps for Providers

  • Remote patient monitoring
  • Telemedicine
  • Diagnosis
  • EHR
  • Medicine reference
  • Hospital mobile app ERPs
  • Clinical communication
  • Appointments management

Health Apps for Medical Administration Staff

  • Doctor/nurse marketplace
  • EMR/EHR
  • Inventory management
  • Billing
  • Practice management applications

As you can see, whether you want to develop a health app for iOS or Android, there’s plenty to choose from.

Also, read our guide on How to Create an EMR/EHR System.

Top 5 Successful Healthcare Apps

It seems that any list out there ranking health apps is totally arbitrary. Would you make a list based on top free, paid, grossing, or trending, based on Google Play or Apple’s Store, or maybe consider software review platforms like G2 and Capterra?

Instead, we turned to CB Insights with their Healthcare Smart Money list that shows where top-performing VCs betting on healthcare put their money.
Healthcare deal share: investment heatmap

Image credit: CB Insights

We then discovered this precious list of startups, busy with health application development, ranging by the investment size. And surprise-surprise, the best-funded apps come from those categories highlighted in the heat map by CB Insights.

Without further ado, here’s the list of mobile products that people who professionally invest in mobile health application development bet their money on:

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#1. Kry

Kry - telemedicine app

Video appointments with physicians and psychologists.

  • over 800,000 patients treated
  • 5-star rating from 97% of its patients
  • doctors and psychologists speak 25 different languages
  • open 24 hours, 7 days a week

KRY helps people take care of their physical and mental health. The application allows users to book a video appointment with one of their doctors or psychologists – at a time and place that’s convenient for the user. They offer drop-in appointments, or users can book one at a specific time.

Related: How to design and develop a doctor’s appointment app

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CareZone

CareZone: medicine app

Managing medications and doctor’s instructions.

  • Always have a medication list with you
  • Reminders help you stay on schedule
  • Organize important info in one place

CareZone makes it simpler to take care of yourself, an aging parent, and other family members that need your help. The app allows users to take pictures of meds (prescriptions, OTC, and supplements) and the names, dosages, and other details are automatically added. There’s easy access to the list of medications, dosages, and schedules. Definitely a product to look up to if you want to learn how to make a medical app that scales.

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#3. Headspace

Headspace health app

A meditation solution with $168.2M vs. $116M for Calm — #1 medical app at the moment.

  • Hundreds of guided meditations
  • Workouts and mindful cardio
  • SOS sessions for moments of stress

Headspace helps users get happy, stress less, and sleep well. It’s your guide to everyday mindfulness in just a few minutes a day. Users may choose from hundreds of guided meditations on everything from managing stress and anxiety to sleep, productivity, exercise, and physical health — including short SOS meditations for when they’re on the go.

Related: How to make a mental health app and How to create a meditation app like Headspace

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#4. PatientsLikeMe

Patients Like Me health app

A social network for people who have the same disease or condition, plus a real-time research platform.

  • Find a supportive social circle
  • Connect one-on-one to find answers
  • Use smart tracking tools to learn how you’re changing over time

With the PatientsLikeMe app, users can find support and answers from people like them and tools that will empower them to control their health. One can learn how others manage their symptoms and see what’s working. Plus, users post updates and interact with others on a news feed. A DailyMe feature helps them log how they’re feeling on a daily basis and get support from other users.
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#5. Hinge Health

the Hinge app

An IoT medical app that comes with a tablet and wearable sensors to give users live feedback during stretches and exercises.

  • Complete personalized exercise therapy sessions
  • Move at your own pace through levels
  • Learn about the best ways of beating persistent pain

Read about our experience in wearable app development

Hinge Health is the pioneer in the area managing chronic musculoskeletal conditions,e.g., back or joint pain. The app and special clap-on sensors provide users with live feedback as they perform stretches and other exercises. The mobile app guides users through 15-minute sessions, and difficulty level gradually increases  as the sensors data indicates the progress.

Check out our article about creating an IoT application

Benefits of Healthcare Apps For Doctors And Patients

Custom app development for healthcare offers countless advantages to patients and providers and facilitates the progress of healthcare industry as a whole. Let’s go over a few benefits we can get from professional healthcare apps.

Benefits For Doctors

Development of a health app is a time-consuming and often expensive undertaking. How can we prove its value to investors and stakeholders?

  • Faster decision making

As a result, doctors get to spend more quality time with patients, and help more patients overall.

  • More accurate diagnosing

This means better treatment plans, timely health care delivery, and improved outcomes.

  • Less stress and burnout

Software frees doctors from mundane tasks, increases efficiency of the health system. It’s astonishing how removal of paperwork can rise medical professionals’ morale.

  • Improved communication between professionals

Telemedicine healthcare application platforms help doctors connect with each other for consultations no matter where they are.

  • Better hospital and equipment management

IoT and other technologies allow health organizations to track their equipment in real time and optimize its use accordingly. For example, we can develop a mobile app for hospital to track the location of all on-premise ventilators.

  • Reduced cost of healthcare provision

All these benefits add up to reduce the cost of healthcare services.

Benefits For Patients

Now to the benefits that patients get to enjoy as a result of healthcare mobile application development.

  • Higher quality care

With all automations available to providers, patients can receive personal health plans, which respect their individual conditions.

  • On-demand accessible care

A healthcare mobile app platform makes some healthcare services available as if you wanted to rent on Airbnb or order sushi. That also means that care gets delivered faster, including meds delivery and remote consultations.

  • Better control over health data

Patients can export medical records and share them with other institutions.

  • Secure payments

In-app payments with credit cards are definitely appreciated and can be easily implemented during medical application development.

  • Engagement

Finally, e-health solutions give patients more control over their therapy, making them active participants of the process.

Must-Have Features in a Health Application

To build healthcare applications that people would actually want to use means to include features that engage users and offer them tangible benefits. Of course, the choice of features will depend on whether you want to build a mobile medical solution for glucose tracking, fitness, or, let’s say, for remote patient monitoring.

Still, there are a number of must-have features that every health application needs to be considered a success.

Integrations with Google Fit, HealthKit, and Samsung Health

Most healthcare apps have to deal with patient data. In that regard, services like Google Fit and HealthKit work as data hubs keeping user vitals.

Patient and doctor profiles

All app data should be organized in user profiles that patients and doctors should be able to edit at any point. Doctor profiles must include enough info about a specialist so patients can make their choice easier.

Telemedicine options

Being able to connect with care providers in real time via video calls or messaging has become a necessity if you want to develop a medical app that works at a distance.

Related : HIPAA Compliant Video Conferencing and Messaging

Reminders and notifications

What mobile applications really excel at is keeping you up-to-date on your prescriptions and medicine intake. These notifications can be not only time- but also location-based.

Also Read: E-Prescription App Development Guide

HIPAA compliance

Of course, all PHI data must be kept secure, and the HIPAA rules that every health app must adhere to, make sure you follow suit. Therefore, it’s vital to encrypt data, provide two-factor authentication, use secure connections, and follow many other protocols to keep everybody’s data safe.

Related: The Complete Guide to Building a HIPAA Compliant Application

Next-Gen Features in Healthcare applications

If we look closer at what technologies drive innovation in modern medical software development, we’d have to admit it’s the same technologies that attract the most funding. By adding the corresponding features to your medical app, you can significantly upgrade user experiences and guarantee higher adoption rates among patients and doctors. What exactly are we talking about?

AI and ML

Artificial intelligence is becoming absolutely instrumental in various medical spheres. Today’s healthcare software, equipped with machine learning algorithms, helps with early diagnosing, identifying health trends, and analyzing massive sets of health data. As a result, doctors can make decisions and adjust patient treatment faster, catering to their unique needs.

What are the most common applications of AI in healthcare apps?

  • intelligent chatbots learning about the patient’s condition during a conversation
  • medical imagery analysis and patterns identification
  • symptom tracking and analyzing apps
  • real-time posture detection
  • ML algorithms fostering discovery and development of new drugs
  • preventive medicine
  • patient flow optimization

Related: How to Develop a Machine Learning App: The Ultimate Guide

Blockchain

Also Read: Blockchain in the Medical Field 

Blockchain is another novel technology set to disrupt the medical field. One of the major advantages that blockchain brings to the table is solving the interoperability issue. For example, solutions like Medblock allow healthcare organizations to share patient data securely on a permissioned ledger, which ensures all patient records remain tamper-proof.

  • integration with multiple EHR systems
  • medicine tracking in supply chains
  • decentralized patient portals where each patient owns and controls access to her data

IoT

The internet of medical things has been a trend for quite some time. However, with the latest technology advancements, more use cases emerge for applying this cutting-edge solution. Modern IoT systems in healthcare go well beyond tracking patients’ vitals. Besides remote patient monitoring, IoT also helps with medical inventory management, assistance during surgeries, and pharmacy management.

  • smart medical appliances
  • wearables supporting advanced sensors like ECG and EDA
  • traceable medicine

Related: How to Develop a Medical IoT App and How to Develop a Remote Patient Monitoring App

Big Data

Of course, you can’t design a scalable healthcare app without addressing the big data issue. Since AI and IoT assume the generation of vast amounts of data, there needs to be a mechanism to process all this information. Therefore, architecting datasets that handle literally millions of calculations in real time goes hand in hand with implementing ML and IoT functionality in healthcare.

AR and VR

Despite augmented reality and virtual reality often being shrugged off as tech suitable just for games like Pokemon, there are quite a few practical applications for both in medicine. The first thing that comes to mind is therapy sessions with a simulated environment, especially when carried out remotely. AR also helps surgeons to train safely and teach students required skills, or we can use it for indoor navigation in clinics.

Related: AR App Development Guide

Monetization Models of a Healthcare Application

How you make money off your custom healthcare solution depends on the product itself. Is it going to be a hospital app for patients, medical mobile software for providers, or an IoT companion app tied to a smart device? Here are some of the monetization options available for these variants.

Also Read: A Complete Guide to App Monetization

Subscription

Nothing gets your accounting happier than scheduled payments coming in from subscribers. Works best not only for mobile apps intended for regular use but also for web solutions. In the b2b world, they call it a SaaS monetization, and it works essentially the same.

Service sales

Onetime purchases of various services that your organization provides.

Ads are a big no

Don’t even think about integrating ads and soliciting a sale to turn them off. You’ll end up annoying customers or spending too much time monitoring the quality and relevance of ads.

Sponsorship

Helpful when your app implies using specific brands of medical equipment or other products.

Licensing

This monetization model is similar to the b2b SaaS model, but when you sell a license for using your software, you get royalties.

Pay per download

The oldest model in the mobile industry and the least popular these days because you’d either have to maintain a free version with limited functionality or customers won’t be able to try out your software.

Device sales

If you sell smart medical sensors that work with an IoT mobile app, the hardware package usually includes the software price.

Patient data

Finally, pharma companies and other medical research businesses will pay for anonymized patient data and other medical information your solution accumulates.

If you look at the revenue streams, they may come from:

  • patients
  • providers
  • employers (corporate wellness programs)
  • medical research institutions
  • insurance companies (or government, if you’re that lucky)

The 5 Steps to Build a Medical App

Step #1: You are building a healthcare app for …

If you are reading this, chances are you already know your target audience. We’ve discovered that successful medical apps are always built by someone serving in the field: either with a medical or nursing degree or working closely with healthcare providers. You really need industry-specific insights when developing a medical software program.

Also Read: Virtual Nurse App Development Guide

Define your medical app’s audience

Get to know the potential users of your app. Their needs and pet peeves will drive every significant decision you’re about to make when building the healthcare app. Remember, it’s all about their context for using your solution:

  • Will users be standing or sitting?
  • Will they have both hands free?
  • Will they have time to interact, or will a glance suffice?
  • Will they face patients when using the app?

Who is the customer of the healthcare app you're building?

Related: The Ultimate Guide to Building The Best mHealth Apps

Choose a suitable platform

These and myriad of other questions will influence the features you’ll build into the health app direct your choice of mobile devices and platforms:

  • iOS or Android (Apple and Android healthcare application development have nuances)
  • smartphones / tablets / smartwatches / smart speakers
  • AI integration by Google / IBM / Microsoft
  • AR, VR, or IoT integration

Let’s look at some of the most popular types of healthcare apps out there. The diagram is far from covering the whole spectrum of apps that you can build, of course. Instead, it’ll help you jump-start on your app idea quest and, eventually, will allow you to hone in on your target audience:

Popular Types of Healthcare Apps

And by the way, thinking outside the box is always welcome. Is there a place for a healthcare app game? You bet. There’re plenty on Google Play already! Is there a place for a solution that connects to a smart pillbox and tracks medicine intake? Yes, we developed a similar product.

Step #2: Here’s how you build a healthcare app without building it

Yes, that’s right. You don’t have to throw yourself into mobile healthcare app development right after putting together a list of features and requirements. Every line of code is money out of your pocket. Why don’t you spend it on finalizing the concept of your iPhone healthcare app instead of starting medical iPhone app development right away?

You do this by prototyping: fleshing out medical features into clickable screens that look almost identical to a real-life product. The beauty of a clickable prototype is:

  • you can experience it on your phone as if working with an actual app
  • you can quickly get a prototype in the hands of users for A/B testing
  • you can verify with a developer if all features are quite feasible on a selected platform

Build a Healthcare App Clickable Prototype

And all of that without draining your development budget. Despite being ultra-important when building a healthcare app, UX & UI work often accounts for a fraction of the total cost, unlike coding.

It‘s 10x cheaper to fix a design flaw while
prototyping than during development.

Joe Tuan, founder, Topflight Apps

Read more about Health App Design

Today, there’s no shortage of interactive tools for rapid prototyping. Some, like Balsamiq or Proto.io, are so easy-to-use that it will be hard to resist the urge to try your hand at putting together a couple of mocks. Others, like Adobe XD or InVision, require design resources with more hands-on expertise in healthcare mobile app development.

Related: Using Figma for Prototyping: The Complete Breakdown

The bottom line is when prototyping, you’re kind of building your healthcare app, and, at the same time, you’re not. Only because at this stage, your users can’t download the product or perform any non-hard-wired action in the prototype.

Popular UX prototyping tools for building a click-thru prototype of a healthcare app

Step #3: Key things to consider when developing a healthcare app that will stand out

At this point, you already have all the features that your medical app will ship with. And the click-through prototype. You’re fully equipped, and nothing can stop you from plunging headfirst into the development of your healthcare app, right?

Right — in many cases, but not so fast if you’re looking to build an exceptional healthcare experience. We suggest you concentrate on these three points during the development process to ensure you’re building a health app that will make a real impact.

Compliance, Privacy and Security

No, it’s not about the proverbial HIPAA compliance that should be in place whenever patients’ protected health information (PHI) is at play. Depending on the type and functionality of your medical app, you will need to wrap your head around such concepts as:

  • HIPAA - abstract lock with health iconsApple’s Human Interface Guidelines for CareKit and HealthKit
  • Android.os.health documentation
  • IEC 62304, ISO27001, SOC2 Type 2, and a few other standards
  • MFi Program
  • HITECH Act, GDPR, and other data security regulations

Patient data should always be traveling to and from the app in an encrypted format over a secure connection.

Related: HIPAA Compliant App Development: Everything You Need to Know

APIs & Integrations

To lure in modern power users and newbies, your app will likely integrate with other services. That’s how you leverage the location and proximity data, make use of vitals offered via HealthKit, work with EHR systems, and do a lot of other wonders during mobile medical app development.

Make sure if the corresponding APIs are available for commercial use and whether you are required to open source your code after using them.

Innovative Technologies in medicine. Health care innovationAgile & Continuous Delivery

Agile is probably already one of your mantras. Well, it’s the perfect time to start practicing. During medical mobile app development, it’s essential to realize that proceeding by brief, one-week sprints, you’re likely to arrive at the desired destination faster and with fewer iterations. There will be time to test the completed scope and adjust future sprints if necessary.

Related: Agile App Development: The Business Owner’s Guide

Another aspect you should be paying attention to is continuous delivery. The team developing your healthcare app must set up an environment that allows QA engineers and you to test completed features without interfering with the development of the next round of features.

If you opt for healthcare Android app development, you are likely to reach more users. However, if you choose to make the software using React Native or other cross-platform framework, you will release simultaneously to iOS and Android, covering even a bigger audience.

Make the Best Use of Legacy Solutions

Incumbents in the healthcare industry often have to deal with legacy software that they’ve accumulated over years. These can be EHR platforms, old databases, content management systems, CRMs, and other (often outdated) healthcare solutions.

The typical approach when building a novel healthcare application is to pull data from these legacy systems into a new application and ditch the original infrastructure. But what if providers and management staff still work with the existing software?

Not all businesses have budgets to replace their legacy systems at once. The old stuff needs to operate flawlessly as its components are being gradually replaced. If this sounds familiar, an optimal route would be to develop a data hub that would act as a syncing link between the new healthcare app and legacy systems.

With such a hub, legacy software can share all data with the new application without introducing unnecessary hurdles for providers working with old software. A special set of APIs will push any new data from the original solutions to a newly built application, and vice versa. Just remember that such a data hub should be HIPAA compliant.

Step #4: What’s next after you’ve built a healthcare app?

What do you do with an app that’s been built? That’s right — release it to the App Store, Google Play, or distribute it to users on an ad hoc basis if it’s a staff-only medical app. That’s also when the real fun starts. Because as soon as you launch the product, you start thinking about possible future iterations.

Popular Mobile App Stores

Sneak up on users, legit

If you’re siding with a pro development team to build your healthcare app, your mobile product already integrates with some analytics product that gathers usage metrics. All you need is to read and interpret this data to find the potential for enhancements:

  • you might want users to stick with the product longer
  • you want to enable users to achieve their goals faster
  • you might want to increase their spend

Whatever it is you’re trying to achieve — the app usage data coming, e.g., from Firebase or Appsee is a reliable source of insight for future upgrades.

Ask for user feedback openly

You can always integrate a customer feedback system if you want to allow users to vent their frustration with the app without leaving a negative review. To enable this functionality, take a closer look at the solutions like UserVoice or UserTesting. And it certainly never hurts to monitor and interact with user reviews you get in app stores.

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Watch major OS updates

New features may also come as you update your healthcare app to support the latest OS version. It’s worth noting that even though most OS updates leave existing apps intact, updating your mobile product is always a better idea. This way, you don’t accumulate any technical debt and make use of the latest OS features.

Believe me, you don’t want to know what technical debt is (reach out directly if you do!). You just don’t want to accumulate this debt and spend a hefty budget on dealing with it later on.

Spy on competition

Today’s App Store monitoring platforms like Sensor Tower or data.ai allow you to stay up to date on your niche competitors, checking their App Store and Google Play rankings. This practice also involves applying a solid App Store Optimization strategy, and it’s way more than picking the right keywords. We have a separate Guide on App Store Optimization for Mobile Apps in 2023 if you’d like to dig deeper.

Step #5: Build an ecosystem around your healthcare app

Now that your app is on track with receiving timely updates and new features (dull people call this a maintenance mode), it’s time to step back and take a look at the bigger picture. Do you see the potential for driving more value for your medical app users by extending to more platforms? Or is there a particular platform (smartwatch anyone?) that just calls for integration?

picture showcasing different apple devices to talk about the importance of building an ecosystem around your app

What if users could see more detailed reports in the cloud-based version of the app — the one they could access via a desktop browser? Does it make sense to come up with a smartwatch version?

At some point, you’re bound to start noticing these opportunities. So go ahead and turn them into growth points by building your healthcare app into an entire ecosystem.

How Much Does it Cost to Create a Healthcare App?

The cost of mobile app development for healthcare can vary significantly, from an IoT-enabled $55,000 MVP (minimum viable product) for a heart rate tracker to a $260,000 telemedicine solution to a $380,000+ full-cycle practice management platform. Of course, the budget for building a healthcare app will always depend on the type of product you want to create.

One question we hear a lot is How to develop a healthcare app and not lose investors’ money?

The framework we often revert to, to help our clients optimize the ROI is rapid prototyping. The sheer fact of having a near-real-life experience with zero code always excites us. We build clickable, interactive prototypes, and then relentlessly test them with the target audience to make sure user journeys make sense.

And after we’ve verified that the solution offers an optimal user experience, we start coding it in the flesh. This approach considerably saves the budget required to create a health app.

If you’re asking how much it will cost to get a healthcare application off the ground using Topflight’s experience, the short answer is at least $60,000. That’s the min cost to engage us in developing a PoC or MVP. I also encourage you to check out our Vision to Traction System that has helped our partners raise millions of dollars using our development services.

Our Experience in Developing Healthcare Applications

At Topflight, we’re lucky to have worked on many versatile web and mobile healthcare applications. The entire company was built on the idea to help providers and medical organizations develop top-flight apps that customers would embrace.

Today, we can boast apps from the following healthcare specialties in our portfolio:

Having developed numerous mobile and cloud healthcare apps, we know that success comes with engaging user experience and laser-sharp focusing on the customer. That’s why we always start custom developing mobile apps with rapid prototyping.

Also Read: Guide to Cloud Computing in the Medical Field

More steps?

Even though we’ve touched upon many things concerning medical apps development, there’s always something extra that we share only with our clients and partners.

So if you’re looking to start a medical app, join the party by subscribing to our newsletter or schedule a call to ask more questions about building a healthcare app. It’s free and enlightening!

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Frequently Asked Questions

 

Do all healthcare apps need to be HIPAA compliant?

No, only mhealth software dealing with PHI needs to comply.

What would you suggest if you could give a single piece of advice to help me create an outstanding healthcare app?

Start with an interactive prototype and make sure you spend enough time testing it with real users from your target audience. This approach will save you a lot of time and effort. In fact, no software project should start with app development, healthcare too.

How can we apply blockchain technology to our medical software?

Right now, the best application of blockchain and smart contracts is when developing EHR platforms.

How do I make sure my application for patients remains competitive?

Use analytics tools like Mixpanel to understand how people use the app and whether they have any issues. You could also rely on proactive solutions for gathering user feedback before they publish it in the App Store.

How long does it take to build a medical app?

I’m sure you’re fully aware, there’s no such thing as an average medical application. Each app is unique. We built healthcare software that required 6 months of development; other solutions took over a year to get ready for the market.

[This blog was originally published on March 2, 2020 but has been refreshed to keep up with more recent updates]

Konstantin Kalinin

Head of Content
Konstantin has worked with mobile apps since 2005 (pre-iPhone era). Helping startups and Fortune 100 companies deliver innovative apps while wearing multiple hats (consultant, delivery director, mobile agency owner, and app analyst), Konstantin has developed a deep appreciation of mobile and web technologies. He’s happy to share his knowledge with Topflight partners.
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