Hospital Apps – Moving A Step Closer Towards Efficient Services

By Author: Jennifer Lewis
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Mobile apps made for healthcare sector offers a great level of versatility and utility, helping this sector in providing high-quality healthcare services with the cost within the reach of a common person. Ever since this sector adopted the concept of mobile apps, they have introduced them to a widely range of benefits like:

They are working as a communication mode to share real-time information and messages.

They work as a remote monitor to reduce isolation and bring dedicated services to your bedroom.

These mobile healthcare apps can turn smart phones into smart medical devices and monitor patient's health statistics in real-time.

They can serve as a reminder machine to remind and encourage for exercising regularly and taking medicines on time.

They can gather data from patients and lead to targeted drug therapies. It is predicted that data recorded through sensors will rise from presently 10 percent to 90 percent in next one decade.

These apps can act as educators and teach young children and adults about self-management of various diseases using fun activities.

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... of mobile health apps can cut hospital admission by using video-conferencing based sessions. The facility of home care training given via mobile apps can reduce chances of hospitalization. A study in this regard revealed that by using these tactics, few health institutions reduced hospital admission by 24 percent.

In a recent study, it was revealed that profits received by using mobile health apps would surmount to USD 305 billion by 2021. More money could be saved by reduced travel time, better logistics, faster decision-making, and improved communication between hospital staff and the patients. It is estimated that the remote monitoring system will help this industry save USD 200 billion in the next 25 years, and this would mainly include managing chronic diseases in the US. Another report reveals that healthcare industry would reduce 25 percent of the cost deployed in elder care in rural parts of the country through remote monitoring.

These healthcare apps are getting huge support from doctors and physicians. In a survey conducted by EClinicalWorks in January 2013, 93 percent doctors and physicians said that these apps are a better option to connect to Electronic Health Records. Around 93 percent doctors said that mobile health apps help them in rendering better services in terms of patient's health care. More than 89 percent doctors say that they will propose these apps to their patients to get personalized service.

Further, in this survey, physicians were questioned about the benefit that they like the most.

Around 58 percent physicians said that they liked the ability to provide patients with automatic appointment alerts and reminders. Nearly sixty percent doctors cited that their patients are appreciating reminder feature of mobile health apps.

Around 50 percent doctors selected freedom of accessing health records as the top benefit. They chose the ease of setting appointments as second best.

A notable children's hospital based in Boston released its apps and quickly realized how important they are from every point of view. The apps owned by this hospital helped users in navigating the hospital right on their smart phones. Other benefits included access to information database prepared by 1000 physicians, 200 clinical programs and four websites owned the same hospital. To keep users interested in using the apps, this hospital started giving discount coupons on medical bills and cafeteria bills.

Conclusion

However, to avail all these benefits and to reach the predictions made by various researches and surveys, it is important that healthcare institutions get apps that complement their services. Thus, it is important that they develop a professional partnership with a mobile app development company that has years of experience in building healthcare apps and seek its assistance and guidance.

The author is a part with one of the renowned mobile app development Dallas TX provides enterprise mobile application development solutions on major mobile platforms. It is one of the best android development companies in Noida.