IT Outsourcing Trends: Raise of Healthcare App Development
After the retrospective analysis, we have defined a few major IT outsourcing trends observed at Apiko. The first part of our summary is dedicated to healthcare app development.
Check out this close-up of digital transformation in healthcare based on Apiko’s case studies.
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Healthcare app development growth
Digital transformation in healthcare certainly takes more time compared to other industries, yet healthcare app development is an ongoing and growing trend. The global mHealth apps market is projected to double its size by 2030, growing annually by 15%.
Source: Grand View Research
The number of people who use healthcare apps on a daily basis is staggeringly high, explicitly demonstrating to us that digitalization in healthcare is the new normal.
Source: Statista
Since healthcare is a fundamental and rather conservative area of unquestionable importance, implementation of innovative software solutions here is often more challenging. It requires meeting strict requirements with extra caution, thought-through reasoning and validation. This makes digitalization of healthcare a very demanding but much needed endeavor.
What healthcare apps have to offer
Apps for patients and seniors
Healthcare apps are transforming the way patients interact with medical services, offering a wide range of benefits that enhance both convenience and efficiency. They allow scheduling appointments, and having online consultations with doctors from the comfort of home. Many apps for patients integrate with wearable devices to provide real-time health monitoring, alerts when anomalies are spotted, allowing users to take timely actions for their well-being.
Besides telehealth, there are applications for scheduling daily healthcare routines, e.g. taking prescribed medications at the right time, or keeping tabs on daily fitness goals or nutrition plan. Senior caregiving apps have their additional specific functionality, offering senior home care, helper services, etc.
Apps for hospitals and medical institutions
Software for hospitals aims at structuring large volumes of patients’ data, providing it’s easily accessible, updated in real time, and securely stored. Fast data analysis and data-driven decision making are life-saving.
Apps for hospitals also streamline operational processes, making scheduling, staff augmentation, inventory management, equipment repairs and overhaul, and healthcare management as a whole better planned, more predictable and efficient.
Apps for healthcare professionals and caregivers
Tools for electronic health records (EHR) management enable seamless access to patient information, test results, and medical histories in real time. Apps for healthcare professionals often include telemedicine capabilities, resources for continuing education, etc. They not only help with delivering quality care but also support time efficiency and collaboration across healthcare teams.
Caregiver apps often provide the features for task management and in-built communication platforms to coordinate with medical teams and family members. Besides, they may also offer the functionality for caregivers’ wellbeing, e.g. covering its mental and physical aspects.
As a rule, healthcare apps are complex solutions that streamline the interaction between the healthcare recipients and providers, meaning they include the functionality beneficial for the patients, doctors and healthcare institutions. Their functionality can be very broad, offering AI-powered diagnostics, personalized treatment plans, mental health support tools, and much more.
Let’s take a look at Apiko’s case studies.
Mental health app development
High demand for mental health app development is been generated by an ever-groving rhythm of life, aggravated with several factors including tense geopolitical situation, economic crisis, etc.
At Apiko, we have continued our work on the mental health software for InsideOut Institute for Eating Disorders, now focusing on web app development. The application lets users track their emotions brought up by meal consumption, paying specific attention to the meal time and ingredients. The Health Professionals monitor the notes added by patients, including those about their unhealthy eating behaviours, like eating at night, malnutrition, etc., highlighting the emotional triggers that cause such behavior.
The platform has been enhanced with new features, including Health Professional and User accounts creation, adding the Centres tab that provides information about different healthcare facilities locations, offices, and Healthcare Specialists working there. The in-app email functionality nicely improves user experience.
Home health care app development
Home healthcare app development is rightfully growing in popularity. Caregiver apps considerably enhance the quality of care for patients and elderly individuals by ensuring that their needs are met in a timely, professional and organized manner.
For seniors and those with chronic conditions, healthcare mobile apps, known as mHealth apps, provide immediate contact with a healthcare professional in case of necessity. The range of features offered is diverse, ranging from real-time monitoring functionality, scheduling and reminders for required daily activities, to physical exercise and nutrition programs, and more.
At Apiko, we keep extending the functionality of GoodLifeSorted, the digital platform for senior home care. It helps elderly people find qualified caregivers and affordable home help services near where they live. All the helpers registered on the platform are hand-picked and vetted, which prevents the rapid growth of the area where the services are provided. Currently the platform covers the South of England, and keeps steadily expanding.
The range of GoodLifeSorted services includes medication reminders, post-hospital support, as well as improving mental well-being and overall quality of life by providing companionship and assistance with household chores like grocery shopping and cooking, light cleaning, walking a dog, etc.
Last year, the Apiko software development team improved the matching algorithm enabling senior people to find a helper best suited to their needs in almost no time. Before this full automation, those were the administrators who had manually picked the matching caregiving candidates. Now, all it takes is just one click to make the system select the best helpers according to the given request.
For our customers, technology plays a supportive, often invisible role. Many aren’t comfortable with digital tools, so our approach is to integrate technology that enhances human connection without overwhelming them.
With a projected 500,000 unfilled care roles by 2030 (Skills for Care) and an ageing population where one in seven people in the UK will be over 75 by 2040 (Office for National Statistics), it’s clear that traditional models alone can’t meet the growing demand.
Our technology serves as the backbone for Good Life Sorted’s hyper-local model. By matching Helpers to customers based on needs, geography, and availability, we ensure that customers receive the right support close to home. For Helpers, this technology helps fill their schedules with meaningful work in their own neighbourhoods —empowering them to make a real difference where they live.
Oliver Cox, CTO at GoodLifeSorted
Healthcare scheduling app
Making shifts scheduling convenient for medical personnel, as well as quickly finding qualified staff for temporary substitutions at hospitals is extremely challenging. Our client, the Novello Team, has set the goal of helping the National Health Service in the UK by building a healthcare scheduling app. It successfully helps medical institutions and qualified staff to solve the above-mentioned complex tasks with just a few clicks, saving time, cost, and effort.
Developed for the United Kingdom, the platform collaborates with 175+ hospitals, and anticipates further growth of its network in 2025. Novello app covers vetting and onboarding of healthcare specialists, and their ability to view the available temporary job openings, pick the desired locations and book shifts, track their former and upcoming earnings, and much more.
Excellent UI design provides transparent and intuitive user flow. Together with fast and easy onboarding it consistently wins users’ hearts and ensures customer satisfaction.
All in all, digitalization in healthcare is here with us to stay in the nearest years to come, firmly keeping its position as the IT outsourcing trend. It may require a broad variety of features, from medical appointment booking software, recruitment and healthcare administration to telehealth, monitoring and treatment plan implementation, e-learning resources, and more. With this in mind, as an outsourcing services provider, and a healthcare app development company in particular, we at Apiko have greatly benefited from our cross-industrial expertise.
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions regarding outsourcing services, or would like to discuss your healthcare app development project. We’d be glad to help you out!