Leveraging The Power Of Iphone Apps In Healthcare Domain - 10 App Ideas

The applications that the modern iPhones come up with, make them indispensable devices in all aspects of life, including health care services. In fact, there are certain applications that are specifically designed or meant only to be used for health care purpose. Let us discuss 10 such applications that make modern iPhones so very unique.

1) WebMD Mobile

This app allows the end user to do a wide range of activities. This includes checking symptoms of a particular ailment that may be lingering for too long with a view to have a better notion about the drugs that are to be administered and the potential side effects of the same. The app also gives the users the option of consulting visual guides in the event of various emergency situations.

2) MedCalc

This particular app acts as a calculator that is basically used by medical practitioners for getting easy access to various complicated medical formulas. The app also allows the users to customize the list of favourite and useful equations besides providing the option of saving a list of them that are used rather frequently.

3) iTriage

This particular app would allow the patients to save their symptoms into a database that is specifically designed to save information including diseases, treatments, directions and other parameters. This database has been specifically designed with inputs from medical practitioners with a view to give patients more control over their health related decisions. There is also an option that allows the patients to directly chat with the doctors or nurses and discuss about their health conditions. They also have the advantage of taking care of their medical bills on a day to day basis, more so if they are suffering from a continuing ailment and are in need of prolonged medical attention.

4) Diabetes Log

This particular app would allow people suffering from diabetes to keep track of all their vital information that may include their glucose reading, daily intake of food and all the related medical records and collate all these information into a single database along with their medical history.

5) EmergenKey

This app would provide the patients the option of keeping track of various vital health related information whenever they are travelling.

6) Sleep Tracker

This particular application would allow users to maintain a track of their sleeping patterns with the help of charts along with logs over a particular period of time. There is also an option of maintaining a 'sleep journal' and you have the liberty of using personal photos as mood icons.

7) ICD 9 LITE

This application would allow easy access to diagnosis coding through a process of disease classification. Besides, it also negates the need to look for information by manual typing as it has the option of a 'drilldown' format.

8) Health Cloud

This application would let the users of Google Health, access all their personal records irrespective of the time and location. Users can save the findings of the new tests and have a look at notices as and when they are generated by the provider.

9) Headache Diary

As the name suggests, this particular application is related to headache-related issues. Headache diary helps the patients to keep a track record of the time and frequency of occurrence of headache on a daily basis. The appliance comes in two versions – LITE version and the Regular version. The Regular version allows the users to put down unlimited number of entries along with the option of email exporting of the same.

10) Natural Cures

This application helps the users to learn the ways of combining various types of natural as well as prescription therapies for curing various ailments. All the conditions are listed alphabetically and the resources can be availed to track doctors along with supplements available in a particular locality.

With all these applications today iPhone has become one of the most handy devices that provide 24x7 health care assistance to the users which at times turn out to be extremely vital. An expert iPhone app development company would have all the expertise and knowhow to strategise, plan and develop iPhone apps for you within allocated budgets and time schedules.

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Tips to Develop an iPhone App and Publishing in iTunes

Despite the growing popularity of Android smartphones, no one can deny the huge popularity of iPhone among both users and developers. Apple also upgrades the smartphone at regular intervals to provide improved user experience. The popularity of the Apple mobile devices have encouraged many developers to build iPhone apps and get these published in iTunes. If you have already experience in building, distributing and promoting applications for iOS mobile operating system, it will be a cakewalk to launch new applications. But you must keep a number of important points in mind, if you are developing and publishing an iPhone app for the first time.

5 Tips to Develop an iPhone App and Publish It in iTunes

• Make and Implement a Comprehensive Development Plan: Despite possessing adequate knowledge and skills, you cannot develop a popular iPhone app without a comprehensive strategy. Along with the budget and timeframe of the project, the plan must cover the entire development lifestyle. Once you decide each state of the app development life cycle, it will be easier for you to write the code. Also, the plan must consider the contingencies that need to be addressed immediately to develop the application on schedule. It is also important to decide how to distribute, market and promote the application once it is developed and tested.

• Optimize User Experience: Like the lifestyle and choices of users, the trends iniPhone app development also changes on the constants basis. So you must observe the latest trends in mobile app development to optimize user experience. For instance, the gaming apps are more popular among users than other apps. So you must consider including certain gaming features in your application to impress the users. At the same time, you also need to follow the standard coding and designing practices to optimize the application’s performance. Also, you must test the app thoroughly to identify and fix the bugs, errors, defects and flaws that will have a negative impact on users.

• Join Apple Developer Program: Apple require mobile application developers to join the iOS developer program by paying certain fee. As a member of the programmer you can access a variety of technical accessories, resources, support and pre-release software. The iOS developer program will further enable you to distribute the app to millions of users in a hassle-free way. At the same time, you can further earn revenue, through In-AdPurchases, iAd rich media ads and the volume purchase program, by publishing your iPhone app to iTunes and App Store.

• Convert Visitors into Customers: Normally, a person visiting the iTunes page decides about downloading an app within 2 seconds. So you must explore options to keep the visitors engaged, and convert them into customers by conveying the desired information. Many visitors decide about reading the features and functionality of an iPhone app only if they like the app name and icon. Also, you must highlight the innovative features and high functionality of the app by including these details in the app description. It is also important to post testimonials on your iTunes page to win the visitor’s trust.

• Enhance Your App’s Visibility: In addition to developing an innovative iPhone app, you also need explore options to enhance its visibility on the iTunes App Store. Many users initiate a search to find apps belonging to a specific category. So the ranking of your app on the search results page will have a huge impact on its popularity. You may find it a daunting task to understand the iTunes search algorithm. But you can always add many keywords to increase the iTunes search ranking of your app. As the search algorithm considers the application name, developer/reseller name and keywords field, you must try to include as many keywords as possible. However, you must avoid keyword duplication and using space between two keywords, as the keywords field allows only 100 characters.

You can also consider using several tools and frameworks to build the iPhone application at a rapid pace. It is also important to understand and follow a number of important iOS app development best practices to design a mobile application that will go viral within a very short span of time.

We provide iPhone app development services. If you would like to talk to one of our iPhone app developers or would like to take a look at the work they have done, please contact us at Mindfire Solutions.