Best mHealth Apps for Patients: Doctor-on-Demand

SteelKiwi has a lot of experience in medical mobile app development. eHealth is an area that has seen a great deal of investment over the last couple of years, with medical e-products popping up left and right. To make sense of this growing mhealth app market, we’ll be publishing a series of articles featuring top-notch mHealth applications across a number of categories.

This article, the first in our series of mobile healthcare product reviews, focuses on the doctor on demand app development.

Doctor-on-demand apps let users contact medical professionals anywhere and at any time via text or video chat through their smartphones. These apps save time otherwise spent getting to the hospital or doctor’s office and waiting in line and generally make healthcare more affordable.

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There are two types of doctor-on-demand apps: online hospitals and medical chat platforms. The first type focuses on offering the advice of medical professionals, the second on offering a space for communication. In this article, we’ll cover five applications of both types in no particular order. These are just the applications that we found to be the best health apps. Once you learn more about them, you’ll quickly proceed to custom mhealth app development.

Dr Now is a UK-based online doctor on demand app that connects patients with qualified general practitioners through remote video consultations. It’s not meant to substitute for a real office visit but rather to help in situations when you feel unwell but not bad enough to actually visit a doctor in person. Dr Now is about preventive measures, medication delivery, paperwork, and quick answers at convenient hours.

With Dr Now, you can stay healthy for less time and money. Patients can choose the doctor they would like to speak to and can be sure that no matter who they choose, an MRCGP certified professional will help them figure things out.

With Dr Now, general practitioners can:

• Review symptoms
• Offer clinical advice
• Write medicine prescriptions with several delivery options
• Write referrals to specialists
• Write doctor’s notes

With Dr Now, general practitioners can’t:

• Provide physical treatments and examinations
• Perform emergency treatments (for chest pain, severe bleeding, suspected stroke, bone fractures, etc.)
• Offer lIfestyle surgeries, oral surgeries or other kinds of alternative therapies
• Repeat medicine prescriptions
• Give vaccinations

Key features of Dr Now: multi-platform, confidential, medicine delivery

Multi-platform support is an important feature of Dr Now. It offers doctor mobile apps for iOS and Android, and an Apple Watch app is coming soon.

Confidentiality in Dr Now is ensured with Amazon Web Services’ security system, which offers industry-standard AES-256 encryption. You can be sure that whatever information you share with your doctor is going to be safe.

Medicine delivery is a special Dr Now feature that helps you avoid spending time at pharmacies. Dr Now offers next-day delivery of prescriptions that you receive via an online consultation with one of their general practitioners. Prescriptions can be delivered directly to your home or office or to any UK pharmacy.

Pricing in Dr Now is simple and transparent. An adult subscription costs £7.99/month and offers unlimited general practitioner appointments to patients over 16 years of age. For children, a subscription is £4.99/month. Adults can add children and other adults to their accounts, but each person over 16 years old has their own private login credentials. The perconsultation fee is £42.50, and is meant for those who are only looking for a one-time consultation with a general practitioner. The Dr Now application itself is free to download from the App Store and Google Play Store.Read more - Medical app development