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Lifestyle tracking apps are a fast-growing trend. Do you want to be part of it?

In healthcare, users are increasingly turning to mobile applications for their daily health needs. This article details different types of medical applications, the challenges of developing an mHealth app, and how to design and develop a functional mobile health application.

If you are an entrepreneur or startup looking to create a health app, this is the ultimate guide for you. Here we discuss everything you need to know about creating a health app.

Types of medical applications.

Lifestyle tracking apps.

These apps are designed to analyze the health and fitness of patients by tracking important data such as heart rate, sleep, exercise, calorie intake and other activities such as women's menstrual cycle. These include Google Fit, Sleep as Android, Map My Fitness, etc.

Fitness apps.

Fitness apps provide general and personalized coaching and guidance for people who want to be more physically active. Users can participate in workouts such as running, swimming, cycling and the like to improve their fitness.

Health advice apps.

Some apps let you book consultation sessions with doctors, including doctors, therapists and specialists. These apps are ideal for non-urgent issues and diagnoses when you don't have immediate access to a doctor.

Essential features of a successful health app.

User profile: This profile is used to provide a personalized experience, sometimes through artificial intelligence.

Dashboard: A dashboard is needed to give users an overview of their health records. It can also be in the form of an activity feed, although this is more common with training apps. Notifications and Reminders: Reminders can be useful to keep users aware of their health and fitness requirements from within the app.

Security and Privacy: Because mobile health apps collect highly sensitive and confidential information, developers building a health app must keep privacy and security in mind at all times.

Secure payment processing: Unless your app is completely free, you need a secure payment processing feature that doesn't expose sensitive customer data.

Challenges you may face when creating a medical application.

Scalability.

A healthcare app collects a lot of data; when this data becomes too much on non-scalable apps, the systems fail. This can even lead to safety problems.

IoT integration.

Most mobile health applications today are used in conjunction with mobile devices, wristbands and smartwatches that function as activity trackers and process medical records in real time. That is why the apps must work seamlessly with these bands and watches.

Accessibility and user experience.

Apps like Fabulous and Headspace are popular because they are intuitive to use and use gamification to keep users interested. To ensure this, the backend and frontend teams must work together cohesively.

The 5 steps to create a medical app
It outlines some necessary steps to take to build healthcare applications.

Step 1. Identify the target group and their needs.

That includes identifying the problems they need to solve for those customers to create a healthcare app that is truly useful.

Step 2. Pre-development.

This is the stage to determine what kind of professionals you need, what tools and technologies you need, the technology stack for development, (government) certification requirements, the development costs (budget), and so on.

Step 3. Development.

Some programming languages to consider are Angular, Vue and React for the frontend; Node.js, Laravel and Ruby on Rails for the backend; React Native, Ionic and Flutter for mobile app development, etc. These all form the technology stack, which largely determines app performance.

Step 4. Quality assurance.

This phase is crucial because any identified issue must be resolved before the app is released.

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