How Telemedicine Shapes a Better Future for Healthcare Landscape
In what ways is telemedicine changing the business of healthcare? Originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.
In order to change the healthcare industry landscape telemedicine app development has begun. It is a subset of telehealth, which uses a wide range of modern technologies and specializes in providing medical services from a distance with the help of software and communication tools.
According to Statista the telemedicine market size will grow to $41.2 billion by 2021. It is obvious that telemedicine apps are becoming more popular among patients, medical establishments, and investors.
Benefits of Telemedicine App Development
Telemedicine helps to support the healthcare system across patients, doctors, and medical establishments. The major task of telemedicine services is to provide remote doctor visits, increase medical service efficiency, and monitor health conditions from a distance.
1. Availability of Medical Services
At first, a telemedicine app provides healthcare service for distant regions with no access to clinics. Besides, there is a problem of healthcare personnel shortage, especially in rural areas. These apps can help veterans, elderly people, school kids, etc. reach medical services easily.
2. Convenient and Time-Efficient Medical Care
You don’t have to spend time visiting a hospital and waiting in line to get a preliminary doctor consultation. This process could take ages, if you need to visit a few different specialists.
Telemedicine apps can be used to make an appointment for remote medical help. Patient and doctor can connect at a convenient time and treatment starts quickly and more effectively. Moreover, telemedicine applications can be widely used in emergency care.
3. Medical Record Keeping
Telemedicine applications help doctors access and store medical data more effectively. Nowadays it is difficult to access these records and transmit them to other doctors for better treatment prescriptions.
4. Unified Patient Management and Monitoring System
Telemedicine app development solutions can help with updates to prescriptions, consultations, chronic disease monitoring, and so on.
5. Efficient Time Management of Healthcare Specialists
With the help of telemedicine apps, doctors can organize their workload more effectively and examine more patients correctly. The research shows that about 15% of doctors experience burnouts and depression. Telemedicine solutions can offer a better life-work balance for doctors.
6. Facilitation of Administrative Operations
Telemedicine apps help to save time, because there is no need to fill out different forms and internal documentation, as most of the paperwork can be automated. As a result, it will lead to higher profits.
Telemedicine app development can be used in different medical fields like dermatology, psychological and behavioral health, cardiology, chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and more.
Contributed by Aleksandra Bessalitskykh, Software Development Consultant at MLSDev Inc.
