Building Doctor On-Demand Apps: Explaining Key Features and Development Cost
For the past several years, there has been a continuous increase in the demand for on-demand mobile apps. Several industries and their audiences have been direct beneficiaries of on-demand apps but none have been as benefited as the healthcare sector. On-demand doctors apps have helped millions in getting timely healthcare from remote locations. The best thing about these apps is that the gap between the demand and supply of healthcare services could be breached to the optimum level.
While doctor on-demand apps are increasingly getting popular, building such apps requires some time tested skills and expertise. A doctor on-demand app project cannot undermine the importance of integrating some key features that ensure smooth user experience, easy accessibility and sophisticated capability for remote consulting.
When it comes to doctor on-demand app development Ireland firms in the IT sector offer great opportunities in terms of expertise, low-cost development and superb post-launch support and maintenance. There are several leading app development companies in Dublin with multiple healthcare and doctor on-demand apps to their credit.
Here we are going to explain the key features of doctor on-demand apps and cost components.
A doctor on-demand app is basically constituted of three app interfaces, respectively the patient app, doctor app and admin app.
Key Features of Patient App
Here are the key features of the patient app interface.
Sign Up
This is to allow patients to register through their email or their mobile number. Just because here critical patient data will be processed it is advisable to use two-factor authentication.
User Profile
This will allow users to create their user profile by incorporating all important information such as name, profile image, age, address, sex, medical issues, etc.
Doctor Search
This is the feature to allow users to search and explore doctors by using various filters such as location, medical specialities, degrees, ratings, etc.
See Doctors Profile
Thanks to this feature users can see the doctor profiles in detail including specialization, doctor image, address, contact information, consultation fees, appointment slots, etc.
Appointment Booking
This feature will show the availability of the selected doctors through a regularly updated calendar and help booking doctor’s appointments through chat, phone call and video calling. The feature will also allow cancelling or rescheduling appointments.
Payment
The feature will allow patients to choose a payment mode and make payments through any of the payment gateways such as cards, mwallet, net banking, etc.
In-App Video Call
The feature will help facilitate live audio and video calls for smooth patient-doctor communication.
In-App Chat/ Messaging
The feature will help patients communicate using text chat or messages.
Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
This feature allows patients to share health data and medical reports with doctors helping with medical diagnosis and treatment.
Review and Ratings
The feature will help patients giving ratings to doctors, publish reviews and give feedback.
Marking Favorites
The feature will help to designate doctors with appropriate marks to help easy search across specialities.
Push Notifications
Push Notifications sent through email and SMS will help to send reminders regarding doctor’s appointments, payments and medicines.
Key Features of Doctor App
Here are the key features constituting the doctor app interface.
Profile of the Doctor
Thanks to this feature doctors can create a detailed profile, particular clinics they are associated with, timings of their availability, etc.
Appointment Scheduling
Thanks to this feature Doctors can schedule appointments to visit patients according to their availability. The feature through a toggle will also allow doctors to set availability.
Acceptance or Rejection of Appointment
In case of non-emergency calls, enlisted doctors through this feature are able to reject or accept appointments as per the availability.
ePrescription
Thanks to this feature doctors are able to send online prescriptions to their patients and the same can be saved for future references.
Live Video Call
Thanks to this feature doctors are able to engage with patients and medical experts through live video calls.
Integrated EMR
This feature allows doctors and medical practitioners to incorporate medical histories and patient records of patients through EMRs to facilitate smooth and seamless remote visits.
Key Features of Admin App
Here are the key features that constitute the admin panel of the doctor on-demand app.
Patient Management
This is a key feature that allows app admin to manage all crucial patient details along with the comprehensive medical history. The feature is crucial to ensure quality and timely treatment for the patients.
Doctors Management
This is another key feature that manages the entire doctor database along with different categories as per their skills and expertise.
Report management
This feature helps with the storage of all the detailed patient reports along with the time and date stamp carried by every report.
CMS for News & Articles
This is basically a content-based feature to allow publishing doctors details and publicise as necessary.
Report management
This feature allows managing reports of all enrolled users. A number of registered doctors and different health services.
Advanced Features
Apart from all the key features of doctor on-demand apps that we mentioned above, there are few advanced features that are equally important for these apps. Here we mention a few of them.
Real-time Analytics
This is basically a key feature admin panel of the app needs. By using various graphs, charts and tables the admin panel can manage patient engagement data and showcase them through real-time stats. The feature is crucial for offering critical medical insights and trends.
Interactive Chatbots
It is truly important fir a doctor on-demand app to facilitate smooth and effortless communication round the clock and this is where interactive chatbots play a great role. Chatbots can help patients and doctors making queries and getting instant clarifications on various issues.
In-app Camera
In-app Camera allows patients to capture images of their suffering organs or symptomatic signs and update them for the doctors to evaluate. An in-app camera also helps patients to appear before doctors when going through online consultation and this helps doctors to evaluate the health conditions of the patients.
GPS Tracking
GPS Tracking is a feature to help both the doctors and patients see the current location of the other side in real-time and accordingly book appointments for an in-person visit.
What is the development cost for a doctor on-demand app?
While the development cost for a doctor on-demand varies, we can make estimates of the development time for each app feature and function one by one. Grossly, the most
Business analysis – 100h
Project management – 260h
UI design – 680h
UX design – 450h
Backend development – 930h
Frontend development – 2380h
Quality assurance – 640h
Now the hourly rate for hiring expert developers largely depends upon the chosen technology stack, the country of origin for the developers and the chosen development company. Hourly rate for mobile app development tremendously varies across regions and can range from $16 every hour to $150 every hour.
Conclusion
As the final piece of advice, we must say that a doctor on-demand app should be developed with a focus on the app performance and smooth user experience before everything else. Since such an app deals with mission-critical healthcare data, you need to be very cautious on account of data security as well.
Author Bio
John Waters is the CEO of KleverApps, an app development company based in Dublin, Ireland that helps businesses with mobile, web and software applications design and development by leveraging the right set of technologies that compiles with their market trends & also fulfils consumers need.
