Introduction

With the pandemic and the global lockdown, doctors are stuck in handling the coronavirus cases. Doctors are hard to find during this pandemic and the ones that are available, they are focusing on the virus cases, these days.

In times like these, technology saves us from being helpless. Telemedicine brings the doctors to your screen, through video calling. It is way more convenient to have a checkup from the doctor through the app than actually going to the hospital and exposing one's self to the deadly virus. But the virus is one major aspect of the situation at hand. Doctors are actually very low in numbers as compared to the complete population (53.3% to 100,000 people in urban states).

The field of Telemedicine development is currently in need of the business as the requirement of the situation. It is still vacant and the demand is growing rapidly with every passing day.

Let's see what this article is going to teach us about Telemedicine development.

1. Benefits from the Telemedicine app development.
2. Development process of Telemedicine App
3. Software requirements.
4. Technological systems working at the back end.

Benefits from the Telemedicine app development

Good health leads to a great life. We all want to maintain our good health. But the current statistics indicate that it is a tough job for doctors to attend all the patients. They extend their work hours somewhat unrealistically. Telemedicine can help in attending the patients efficiently having better work hours.

The need for Telemedicine development went higher because of the pandemic of coronavirus. It has now become an essential app for healthcare with growing demand.

1. Medical services will be easily accessible. Remote areas of the world suffer because of the low availability of medical services and treatments. The basic reason is the absence of fully equipped clinics. Telemedicine can help overcome this problem, providing medical facilities from older people to children.
2. No need to rush to the hospital and wait in line for hours on a stretch, when you have the Telemedicine app. The doctor will be at your doorstep virtually in no time.
3. Medical record-keeping couldn't be done more efficiently without Telemedicine apps. Doctors can not only store but also access the data for their patients, checking their history of illnesses and other such records. This feature works effectively without having the doctors send data to each other in the traditional manner.
4. With these apps, follow up checkups and multiple consultations can be done without even getting up. Not only that there can be a feature to monitor chronic disease and recovery of the patients.

Development process of Telemedicine App:

The development process of Telemedicine apps is further divided into two stages: Discovery stage & Development stage.

These points should be considered before developing a telemedicine app:

1. Your targeted audience.
2. App's purpose.
3. Developing a business model.
4. Organization of the data and the app's content.
5. Planning the budget for app development and advertising.
6. Designing and development of the app by professional developers.

Discovery Stage:

This stage can be further divided into the following:

1. Business Analysis: The most important aspect of this stage is to create a product backlog along with the brief intro of the functionalities and system logics of the specific app. Market and competitor analysis can be a supplemental service of this stage.

2. Architectural planning of the software: Architectural requirements are fulfilled in this stage according to the needs and objectives of the business.

3. UX/UI Design: The design is created in accordance with the backlog and functionalities of the app.

4. Management: The project manager handles the management process during the all phases of telehealth app development.

Development Stage:

1. Planning: The development team arranges, analyses, and formulates a timeline to complete the tele-health development process.

2. Development: After the process of coding, it is the stage where the team launches its first app version along with the primary features and then expands its horizon accordingly.

3. QA/QC: The final process to ensure whether the apps work according to the standards of performance, quality and functioning. All the team including developers and QA/QC engineers test the product's reliability.

Technology behind the Telemedicine app:

1. AI(artificial intelligence):

AI is a software robot that can be used as chatbots and voice recognition. It can refer you to the related doctors automatically. It takes the Telemedicine industry to a new level.

1. Big data:

   By using big data EHRs (electronic healthcare records) can be managed easily which can help in better treatment, accurate diagnosis and conduct better research.

2. Blockchain:

   A blockchain can help transfer the medical records with just a few taps. The date and such personal records can be transferred securely through blockchain.

3. IoT

   The Internet of Things (IoT) helps in tracking the vitals, diagnosis, treatment and it improves the built-in emergency response as well.

Telemedicine features for patients:

1. Registration: It can be done through the phone number or social network or email. It is better to use two-factor authentication using SMS, voice and phone verification.
2. Patient profile: previous health care records must be added here with complete and accurate information. This feature should be easy and short; we all know filling forms are exhausting.
3. Search: a patient can search for specialists on different bases.
4. Appointments: appointments should be saved in the app with the option of canceling them by the patient under the given time.
5. Communication: audio or video call can become a means of communication. The symptoms can be shown through previously taken pictures.
6. Geolocation: patients should be recommended to the doctors based on patient's current address.
7. Payment: there should be a payment gateway system. The patient should be able to keep track of transactions
8. Rating and review: there should be a system through which doctors should be rated and reviewed by the patients on the basis of services they receive and the quality of the service

Telemedicine features for patients:

While considering the applications and benefits of telemedicine app, we can conclude that telemedicine apps are the dire need of time. So if you want a healthcare app developer, our team is here to help. As we have experts available in this domain. Besides, 4vision solutions have worked on many healthcare apps since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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