Why are Telemedicine Mobile Apps Revolutionary in Healthcare Industries?
After the Covid pandemic, digital solutions facilitating remote access to healthcare have become more crucial than ever before. Though telemedicine app development has been popular for several years, the pandemic made the final push to make people embrace remote care through telemedicine apps.
According to the latest estimates, the worldwide telehealth market from its 2020 market size of $25.4 billion is expected to grow up to $55.6 billion by the year 2025 with a year on the year growth rate of 16.9%. Telemedicine apps are increasingly getting popular among doctors, patients and healthcare facilities because of the ease of access to healthcare services, prompt addressing of patient concerns and convenience of diagnosis and treatment.
What are Telemedicine apps?
Telemedicine or telehealth apps refer to the mobile apps used expressly to provide treatment to patients by using mobile communication. Mobile communication for telemedicine apps includes video calling, teleconferencing, email communication, chat messaging, sharing images, etc. While earlier computers were used for digital communication corresponding to treatment, it is mainly due to the mobile apps, telemedicine became so much popular.
Telemedicine apps in many ways made life easier for the patients as well as the caregivers and healthcare practitioners all over the globe. Thanks to telemedicine apps remote patient monitoring and providing medical consultation through live video conferencing has become extremely popular now. In different parts of the world telemedicine app startups are mushrooming because of the huge potential it represents. Developers found telemedicine represents one of the most popular app ideas for Irish startups now.
As per the Vidyo Telehealth Adoption Survey 2019, a whopping 46% of healthcare establishments including hospitals and clinics make use of live videoconferencing. According to the same survey, another 41% rely on remote patient monitoring for regular medical care.
Do the key ways telemedicine apps improve healthcare?
Telemedicine apps equally benefit patients, healthcare practitioners and medical establishments in a variety of ways. Here we are going to explain some of the proven ways telemedicine apps benefit patients and all stakeholders in the healthcare industry.
Better access to healthcare
It is common for patients to encounter frictions and barriers when accessing traditional medical care. From difficulties corresponding to geographical location to transportation problems to long waiting times for doctor’s appointments, the access to treatment and care can be delayed or become difficult for various reasons.
This is where telemedicine apps emerged as more appropriate solutions to ensure faster and better access to healthcare. No wonder, an increasing number of patients now use on-demand apps for fixing doctor appointments and leading medical establishments increasingly rely on streaming video for patient monitoring.
In Ireland, many healthcare facilities have already made their presence in the booming telehealth sector. Apart from startups creating unique health apps, all major healthcare facilities and clinics have now jumped on the telemedicine bandwagon. Telemedicine app development in Ireland is experiencing a wake of interest that is not going to fade away anytime soon.
Enhanced Safety
The disastrous toll Covid-19 pandemic created for life and businesses around the world serves as a reminder of how maintaining a safe distance from all possible sources of contagious touch can be important for the healthcare industry. The pandemic has been an eye-opener to the lack of safety and security precautions that our medical fraternity used to go with.
Telemedicine apps in the wake of the pandemic helped millions of people to access medical care and consultation without visiting the risk-prone hospitals and medical facilities. These apps saved the lives of millions from the contagion. This safety and security from contagions are going to be a big impetus for people with less immunity and comorbidities to use telemedicine apps.
Streamlined and connected healthcare
From faster decision making concerning critical care to ensuring proper medical insurance claim settlement based on valid data, telemedicine apps and healthcare gadgets can play a great role in streamlining data for more precise and accurate medical care and services.
A healthcare app can easily record and transmit data corresponding to a patient’s physical activity, sleep patterns, and other vital statistics to the caregivers and thus can tell the doctors to administer proactive treatment. Similarly, real-time streaming of patient data to insurance companies can help faster processing of medical claims.
Saving more lives through quick critical care
Carrying out fast diagnosis and administering precise treatment play critical roles in saving lives in healthcare facilities. In saving the lives of critical patients faster diagnosis and quicker collaboration among the doctors and caregivers can play a very important role. In this respect, mobile healthcare apps play a better role compared to the traditional desktop software used by medical establishments.
Faster medical diagnosis and access to test results through mobile telemedicine apps makes it possible for doctors to administer treatment and care quickly. On top of that thanks to the healthcare apps, doctors and caregivers can collaborate and communicate with each patient and ensure more appropriate treatment.
Decreasing cost of healthcare
There can be hardly any doubt that in many countries around the world increased cost of healthcare prevents many people from receiving proper medical treatment and care. This is another area where telemedicine apps are going to play a great role by reducing the overall cost of treatment or healthcare.
In many ways, telemedicine apps can drastically reduce the cost of treatment. for example, patients requiring extended hospital stay just for the sake of staying in close observation of the doctors can remain at home and still can be under observation through a medical app. Thanks to the telemedicine app, patients can consult doctors from home and thus can save the hassle, time and cost of transportation.
Unparalleled privacy
Some patients hesitate to visit medical facilities just to maintain their diseases and conditions private. Patients also fear coming into contact with contagious diseases. For all such hesitations and constraints, telemedicine apps come as the appropriate answers.
Patients simply by consulting with the doctors from the convenience of their own homes do not need to go through the tiring exercise of revealing their conditions before strangers. On the other hand, all the medical documents, test results and lab exam results are handled discreetly by the doctors without any unnecessary exposure.
Conclusion
From the above-mentioned benefits, it is clear that telemedicine apps have not just introduced some useful innovations in the healthcare industry. These apps transformed the pace, efficiency, cost and accuracy of treatment and medical care in several ways. The future of healthcare already seems to be unthinkable without telemedicine apps.
