Things To Keep In Mind Before Developing A Healthcare App In 2025

Though there are over 400,000 healthcare apps on the App Stores, only a few have tasted the flavor of success. Moreover, most healthcare apps have as few as 10,000 downloads. 

How would you feel if your painstakingly created healthcare apps met the same fate?

Things to keep in mind before developing a healthcare app in 2025

Your target audience

A toy designed for a six-year-old will not excite a twelve-year-old. Similarly, healthcare apps devised for medical practitioners will not attract patients. Healthcare apps for patients and medical professionals are different, as their functionalities and features are poles apart. Therefore, it is necessary to specify your target audience before deciding on its features.

Also, all-in-one apps are good for nothing, unlike healthcare apps on one specific need. 

You can try to answer a few questions to determine your target audience; these questions are as follows:

1. Which problem are my healthcare apps going to solve?
2. Who will use the app?
3. How can my app appear more appealing than its rivals?

User guide creation

It is a good idea to create a user guide for your target audience as it helps them use and explore your healthcare apps with ease. This user guide will teach your target audience how to achieve their goals. Suppose the healthcare apps that you have created are for patients. Then, including a how-to section on how to communicate with doctors will be a good idea.

Healthcare professionals and patients' communication portal

Some healthcare apps claim to have the feature of patient-doctor communication. These apps should ensure that such a professionals-and-patients communication portal works. Therefore, making sure patients can connect with their doctors using healthcare apps is crucial.

Moreover, creating a communication channel where private information is secure and messages get displayed at both ends is not only a need but also a want. 

If your app glitches in the exchange of messages, users might flinch from using your healthcare apps.

Healthcare app designs

The look of the app should not be shoddy and too loud. Your target audience dictates the way your app looks. If your app is for young patients, you can make it vibrant and make the font according to their taste.

On the other hand, if the app is for the elderly, you can make the font bigger and easier to read. 

Also, choose your app colors that are not too harsh to look at; no one would use healthcare apps that have gaudy colors.

Device Security

Even though Android constitutes over 80% of the smartphone market today, Android smartphones are less secure than iOS mobiles. Cybersecurity has dissuaded making apps for Android at all in the case of apps where security matters more than anything else.

Therefore, to avoid data leaks, you should decide whether or not the user data might be at risk and then plan the medium accordingly. Healthcare apps that have failed in preserving user security have brought the credibility of their app developers into question.

Based on your country of choice, you should comply with the following accordingly:

1.  HIPAA
2. ADA (The Americans with Disabilities Act)
3. PHI (Protected Health Information)
4. HITECH (USA)
5. GDPR
6. DPLEF
7.  DPLED (The European Union)
8. The Data Protection Act (The United Kingdom, PIPEDA (Canada) 

UI/UX designs

UI stands for User Experience, whereas UI stands for User Interface.

Both things are of immense importance in the successful working of any healthcare. It is natural to expect the same in the case of Healthcare Apps.

Therefore, Healthcare app development should consider these two things while devising the app for its target audience. 

It means the interaction between users and computer systems, software, and applications should be as easy as possible (User Interface).

Likewise, the app as a whole should be a simple but effective concept that people could grasp with ease; their overall experience with your brand, product, and service is in this ambit (User Experience)

Integration with healthcare wearables

Healthcare wearable devices include health trackers and smartwatches, and according to Juniper Research, the healthcare wearables market will touch $20 billion by 2023.

These devices are in the rage nowadays and are competent in storing crucial patient data. They track patient data like heart rate, blood sugar, tremors, posture control, sleep patterns, and physical activities, which helps patients learn more about their health and fitness routine.

This type of data plays a critical role during remote monitoring as doctors require these values to diagnose their patients correctly.

Tech Stack

You should include technologies that are here to stay. It ensures that your app does not get into trouble if used software technology goes obsolete. Also, one would like to use that technology that comes under the tried-and-true category and is trustworthy.

If you use a fading technology, there are chances that your developed healthcare apps will go out of use soon.

Healthcare apps feature

Healthcare apps and any other app, in general, have two sets of features. The first set of features includes those features that are basic and essential to the working of an app. On the other hand, the second set of features comes under the Advanced Features Set category.

If you aim to develop an MVP, you should focus on the basic features. You can improve their quality to differentiate your healthcare apps from your rivals. If you aim to develop an advanced healthcare app, go for the feature set, the Advanced Features Set category.  

The features you want to include in healthcare apps define the cost you would need to pay and the required time for healthcare app development. 

App testing

You would not like to discover that your app has bugs after its launch, as it will only cause people to complain about your app, and soon it will spread like wildfire. 

Testing during healthcare app development lets you think like a user and use the app the way they would; app testing will make you come across some features that you thought were crucial but might be trivial or unnecessary for your user.  

Also, testing lets you redesign those features or omit them altogether.

You can go for Unit Testing as it checks whether or not all code meets quality standards before deployment. Unit testing also saves time and money.

You would also be on the safe side if you test even the following things:

1. Check your healthcare apps' security level and authenticity (PII, PHII, and HIPAA compliance)
2. Try to test your app with low internet connectivity to simulate real-world scenarios.
3. See whether your app is compatible with iOS, Android, Windows, and other browsers (If you have developed it for every platform)

Conclusion

Healthcare app development demands utmost attention and care since a faulty healthcare app can cost someone's health. You can also include the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine learning in your healthcare apps.

Also, it will be beneficial if you decide on the platform for which you are developing the app before jumping into app creation. The reason is that your app's features depend on the platform on which it will run.

If you want to create healthcare apps for your organization and patients, contact AppsRhino today!