Month: May 2017

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The ability of mobile phones to transmit important information anytime, anywhere is leading to its increasing use in the medical world.

Apps can track the state of our health and notify users if something does not go according to plan. Data from these apps also allows doctors to refer medical history of their patients and to provide any advice or feedback urgently.

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On the whole, apps seem quite useful for the healthcare industry. But what are the key trends driving the demand for mobile apps in healthcare?

Let’s take a look.

Electronic Medical Records

These can help in obtaining information online. Medical records are saved electronically rather than on paper.

If a paper or a file is misplaced, then information about a patient’s health will be lost. Lack of proper medical history and data results in poor treatment and wrong diagnosis. Mobile apps on the other hand, are part of a larger healthcare management system, allowing data to be stored securely doctors and patients to review every small detail required for correct treatment.

Exchange of data without any loss between medical centres

The ability of software to exchange and to make use of data or information is also called as interoperability. The lack of interoperability between doctors, medical centres and hospitals is compromising patient safety and health.

Healthcare mobile app development will make it possible for doctor’s clinics, specialists and hospitals have access to real-time patient information. It avoids the loss of information or data while transferring.

E-visit

An E-visit can replace many in-office patient appointments.

E-visit or electronic interactions between patient and physician or doctor through email, text, phone and video conferencing has created demand for app.

Video conferencing allows doctors and patient to conduct meeting personally without going to the doctor’s clinic or hospital. This will also reduce costs and in-office appointments for simple tasks like prescription renewal and medicine change.

E-visits can save a lot of time for doctors and allows them to spend time on serious patients’ issues.

Mobile health or m-health

Mobile health or m-health is new trend helps in practising medicine and improve people’s health supported by mobile devices.

There are different apps are used for different type of requirements.

•  It involves chronic care management like managing blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, mental health and other illness.
•  People can generate alerts that serve medical reference for patients and doctors.
•  Nutrition apps, health tracking, fitness and weight loss apps.
•  Women’s health apps include pregnancy, breastfeeding and other.
•  Medication management apps help to keep track of taking medication
•  Personal health record apps, to store medical conditions data, allergies etc.

Mobile app can be used to satisfy several needs in healthcare:

•  Diagnosis and treatment support
•  Disease tracking
•  Remote data collection
•  Education and awareness
•  Helpline
•  Communication and training
•  Disease tracking
•  Remote monitoring

Automated inventory management systems

Mobile solutions implemented in hospitals and pharmacies enable them to manage their inventory easily and with real-time access to inventory data and orders. It helps in meeting variation in product demand.

The increased use of devices makes data more susceptible to hackers. Hence there is the need to protect the data. Any app should protect the privacy of individual’s health information. Mobile apps should meet the rules and regulations of privacy maintenance.

These are five trends responsible for demand of mobile app development in the healthcare industry. If you know of other trends that has boosted healthcare mobile apps, please share below in the comment section.

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Google has announced the ‘VPS’ technology, an approach to explore indoor GPS to tackle issues with both virtual reality and augmented reality.

Like GPS, VPS(Visual Positioning Service) is also a mapping innovation that utilizes the process of visual focus on the walk way, end of the room and on other objects to set a limit and ensure free movement indoors.

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Google revealed that it has been working with HTC and Lenovo and is planning to launch their first VR devices based on the Google Daydream technology later this year. The company has also introduced a Google Glass, an AR headset for the smart phones and is also planning to use Qualcomm chips for VR headsets.

Google also demonstrated AR features in the Google expeditions platform for students that uses Tango’s sensors to map classrooms and place 3D visualizations within a space.

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According to Clay Bavor, the Standalone VR gadgets utilizes the method of ‘precise tracking’ i.e. the gadgets does not rely upon outside sensors to place, but handle the headsets in the physical world.

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Microsoft has announced ‘Xamarin Live Player’ enabling developers to test, debug and deploy apps directly on Android and iOS devices.

The app allows developers to pair up their devices with Xamarin and Visual Studio on Windows/Mac followed by scanning the QR code and then test the apps in seconds.

According to Microsoft Corporate Vice President Nat Friedman, the new app allows developers to reduce time, to set up the app building environment and to compile apps. Cutting down the development time can create an immense enhancement for developer’s productivity.

'Xamarin Live Player' Enables Testing of Apps Directly on Android and iOS
 

Xamarin Live Player also supports a Live Run feature which helps developers pick specific screens within apps and then test the changes when displayed on a device.

The company has also announced changes to Visual Studio Mobile Center and XAML standard, which is a version of interface mark-up language.

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With rising demand in popularity of apps, companies are making efforts to enhance the user experience by opting the latest technologies for mobile app development. There is a constant growth on cross-platform enterprise apps by using mobile app development tools and this has emerged as a pivotal necessity among developers.

If you are focusing on experimenting, then its better to consider building a native app and further improving the app with iterations which allow you to have complete control over the usability and design. But, if you plan for a multi-platform app, then you can consider cross-platforms and development tools.

Choosing the right tool is essential for the development of a great app. Using such app creation tools can help you save money and time as well. Most of the tools available today offer a range of choices to both the mobile app development company and the end users. Therefore, it is essential to opt the best tool that offers ideal functions.

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In this fast paced world, the app market is expanding each day and mobile marketing is becoming more competitive. To ensure that the app is seen in such a complex scenario of app system, you need to be very particular about the approach being followed while creating an application.

Firstly, you need to have a great idea and imagination to create a great app. Decide the features to be included in the app and think how it can stay different from apps. It should provide its users benefits including reduced cost, productivity enhancements, new features and improved customer experience.

No app can stay static and be successful within no time, no matter what your industry be. So, think creatively to come out with concrete ideas and plans to better grow your app in the mobile app market.

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Any new developer interested in mobile app development faces the following questions.

If I want to do mobile app development where should I start from? Do I have to build from scratch? What options do I have to build a mobile app? What are the pros and cons of each option?

Well, there are a few options to help you decide the approach required for building your first mobile app

Bring Idea to Reality

This is the most popular form of mobile app development. If you have an idea and if it is something which has not been done before, you can develop that into a mobile app. You can do it yourself or ask a developer or mobile app development companies to do it for you.

Pros

  • Free Hand – You can develop and make changes as you want it to be. Everything is under your control.
  • Ownership – The IPR of the app resides with you. You are the owner of the app. If the app gets popular, the source code and publishing rights can be sold to other companies/individuals.

Cons

  • More efforts – Since the idea is new, challenges to implement it are unknown. More efforts will have to be put to implement the idea. You have to take care of every aspect of design and data flow.
  • Risk – Risk is more in building an app from scratch. All the efforts may go in vain if the idea could not be implemented or users do not like the app.

Clone IT

This is another form of mobile app development where developers emulate popular apps. The idea is to take a pie of market share from the popular app by building a similar app.

Pros

  • Less Surprises – Since the idea is already implemented, the challenges are less. Hence the time to develop is also reduced.
  • Less effort – Since the app is already present, you have to emulate the functionality with same or extended features. You don’t have to put effort in conceptualizing it.
  • Less Cost – The cost of developing the app will be low as less effort is needed. Also, this app can be offered to users at a low cost. If everything is identical, the market share can be easily captured.

Cons

  • Clones vs. originals – The experience tells that clones have not been able to emulate the features and success of the original app. If you want to sustain in the market, the cloned app should be bug free and feature rich.
  • Competition– There will be other developers cloning the popular mobile app to get the pie of market share. In this case, your race is not against the original but the cloned apps. The shelf life of cloned apps is usually less. To be popular, you need to be unique from the other cloned apps.
  • Less Returns – The returns on investment will be less in comparison to original ones.

App Flipping

App flipping is a popular concept in mobile app development. It consists of 3 steps

  1. The developers can buy source code for popular app
  2. Give a makeover to the app by redesigning skins and adding new features
  3. Publish your app in the app store

Pros

  • Only design change is needed – Since the source code is d for already existing app you need not have to write the functionality again. You just have to redesign it. Change the skins, graphics and icon and you are good to go.
  • Less effort – Less effort is needed as you just have to do design work.

Cons

  • Coding Skills Needed – Since you have bought the source code, you have the control now. Any change needed to be done has to be done by you. So, you need to have some knowledge of coding.

Buy the App

You also have the option to buy the complete app and not just the source code. If complete app is d, you get the rights to use icons, names, keywords and everything else. The IPR now resides with you. The advantage is that you don’t have to redesign it since you own it now. Any benefit starts accruing from the date of . However, they turn out to be costly and you have to maintain it after . If you are not a developer, maintaining it can be difficult.

These are some of the ways through which you can start your first ever mobile app development.