Are Health Apps Really Saving Lives- or just Misleading Us?

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Let’s find out the various secrets of whether health apps are really beneficial for users or they just confuse us.

There is no denying to the fact that smartphones have changed the way humans lived before. Comparing it with the life of our parents and elders, more than 75% of our everyday activities rely on mobile apps. From messaging to finding directions to playing music to keeping fit, almost every task is performed through an app on our smartphones.

Stimulated by the rising trend of health apps, Appfutura – a large community for mobile app developers to find the best app development companies, interviewed some of the renowned app development companies across the globe on health apps and their importance. Konstant Infosolutions was also picked by Appfutura to answer some of the frequently asked questions on health app market.

Starting off, the first thing that companies were asked was to describe the main characteristics of a health app. Out of an extensive and progressive experience in creating apps including health apps, our team focused on multiple health and fitness trackers available in the market. It’s important to develop the right health and fitness apps. Some of the important features of health apps as defined by Konstant include:

Simple dashboard layout with functions like measuring heart rate, calories burned, blood sugar, cholesterol on everyday basis.
A health app must consist of a tracking management system and access to share patient’s data with specialist doctors and physicians
Good informative articles, blogs and research-based study material helping medical researchers to gather data
Synchronization of health and fitness data on the cloud
An emergency ‘help’ feature on the home screen

Moving ahead, our company mentioned about the best experiences health app users have on their mobile phones and wearables. The best is to have an error-free integration of wearable/fitness tracker with the mobile app. For instance, if a fitness tracker measures the amount of your sleep, the app must track data to recommend users on how to get better sleep. This is what provides a great UX.

When asked about how do health apps improve user’s lives, the team at Konstant revealed latest statistics from the recent survey that 96% of users believe that health apps help them improve their quality of life. They further added that users go on running, jogging and exercising with their smartphones and wearables to track down real-time data of how many calories have they burnt, how many kilometers have they run in a day, week and months’ time. These health apps also suggest diet plans according to user’s existing fitness data and encourage them to exercise accordingly.

Similarly, health apps are of great help to medical professionals and experts as they can keep a record of the actual count of patient’s calorie intake, blood cells, hemoglobin, blood glucose, blood pressure, body temperature, heart rate, body mass and every other activity data. This gives them a clear understanding of their patient’s existing state and aid them during treatment and prescriptions.

According to Konstant experts, mHealth is gaining more attention of users with each passing day (for both Android and iPhone users). Although it becomes difficult to choose one from an array of health apps available in the market, users must focus on the above-mentioned characteristics to receive best experience. Some of the popular and most preferred health apps are Equinox, Runtastic Pro, My Fitness Pal, Pocket Yoga as each of them offers unique and distinguished features.

Companies also mentioned the health apps they have developed. Some of the health apps developed by Konstant expert developers are Recover Link, Tab Doctors, Injection Aid, Get Doctors. You can find the list here.

Appfutura also inquired about the kind of regulation problems these app development companies face while creating health apps to which Konstant replied that it’s the integration of medical devices with a wireless, Bluetooth device or a wearable as there are some strict standards and rules to be followed while you connect a medical device.

However, they mentioned that they always come up with 100% reliable and satisfactory solutions ensuring that medical rules and regulations are abided by their developers.

If you are seeking to hire the right company for creating a health app, you must go through the whole Appfutura interview and decide yourself.

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About Author
Heena Banga

Heena Banga

Heena Banga is a Senior Content Developer at Konstant Infosolutions- a globally recognized mobile application development company. She leads marketing and growth initiatives at the company using a mix of technical and business content tactics. Heena also contributes articles to CrowdReviews, OpenSourceForU, Sociableblog, ducttapemarketing, PAYMILL blog. She hopes to enjoy a business conversation onboard a commercial space flight someday. Her ultimate goal is to combine business and writing and go into Advertising.

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