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The recent pandemic has brought the healthcare sector on the center stage again. Though the entire sector is passing through the transformation from traditional to digital over the last decade, massive changes are visible only during recent years. Thanks to the rise of healthcare app development, the sector can offer improved services and enhanced experiences to patients. 

Gone are the days when people had to schedule their appointment over the phone or were believethat mHealth or mobile health can bring an improvement in the patient’s health. An on-demand medical app enables patients or people to find doctors immediately. Let’s understand more about the mobile medical apps for finding doctors. 

Like any other on-demand apps, you need to keep the necessities of patients, physicians, and healthcare staff in mind while making a roadmap for the mobile medical app. All the necessary features and facilities should be present in the customized healthcare app, and you need to ensure that the app you are going to bring is simple to use and capable of handling emergencies. 

You can consult an Android app development or iOS app development company depending on your target audience to make an app for finding doctors. It is of utmost importance that you take care of UX (User Experience) and security of the patient’s confidential health data while opting for a medical app for finding doctors. Also, it is necessary to manage the profile of the doctors and integrate a payment gateway. Here are the key features. 

Key Features for Healthcare App to Search Doctors

Let’s make a list of the vital features you need to add to the app for searching doctors and scheduling their appointments. These features have nothing to do with the platform you selected for building an app. 

• User Profile or Registration

This is the first and most basic feature of the app. The user profile needs a few details of the app user like name, sex, age, and contact information. You can also consider other useful information like height, weight, allergy, and the status of diabetes. These details will act as a personal health record for the user or patients. 

• Doctor Profile

This is another important feature. Here, a physician can register themselves. It includes name, surname, area of specialization, location of the clinic, and hospitals with which the doctor is associated. Also, you can consider adding reviews and ratings for the doctor so that the patients can easily find the doctor based on ratings. 

• Search and Filters

This is the main feature for medical apps designed for finding doctors. The healthcare app development company adds this feature to enable users to find a specific doctor or specialist as per their needs. For example, if the patient has a digestion problem, a gastroenterologist should be consulted. Filters can refine search more effectively.  

• Scheduling Appointments

After selecting the doctor, the users opt for scheduling appointments. The patient or the user needs to fill out the form with name, age, gender, and a brief description of the problem along with symptoms. The form should ask for the past medical history as well so that the physician can know the brief history of the patient. 

• Payment Integration

You just cannot skip this feature when you want to build an app for searching doctors online. After having the consultation and getting valuable advice from the doctor, the patient pays the fees online through the payment gateway. It is convenient and offers multiple options to the patient to pay the fees including credit cards and debit cards. 

• Live Conference

This is an additional but highly useful feature. Live chatting or video calling with the doctor feature is helpful for remote patients and during emergencies. Patients can interact one-to-one with their physicians without visiting their clinic with the help of this feature. The telemedicine concept can be a great beneficiary of this feature.  

• Track Appointments

This is a unique feature of a mobile app for finding doctors and scheduling appointments. It can show how much time it would take until the patient will be called in. It enables patients to remain updated with the status of their appointment. 

A healthcare app development company can suggest other features like geolocation, medication schedule, and reminders, etc. depending on your target audience. Talking about the cost of app development for finding doctors, it can be ranged from $30000 to $80000 based on the complexity of the app. It is fair to mention that the cost of an iOS medical app is less than an Android medical app. A reputed app development company can give more details and assist you to come up with a user-friendly healthcare app. 

Concluding Lines

The healthcare industry is thriving by leaps and bounds and technological advancements act as fuel to its growth. Healthcare mobile app development can assist healthcare service providers to improve their services and bring automation in various processes including searching for doctors and scheduling appointments. Over the period, such medical apps will gain more popularity across the world. 

Suria International is a leading mobile app development company. Headquartered in Singapore, Suria International has in-house teams of experienced app developers and web developers to meet the diverse and complex business needs of a global corporate clientele. With the help of cutting-edge tools and technologies, we provide the best-in-class healthcare app development services. Just drop us a line at business@suriainternational.com to know more about our mobility, web, and eCommerce development services.