FEATURES

• Appointment scheduling. Both doctors and patients should have a calendar where they can book and change appointments. Consider integrating reminders that notify users about upcoming events and a payment system.
• Wayfinding and navigation. To improve patient flow and satisfaction, provide route finding assistance to the hospital, indoor navigation, and parking help. Consider an in-app queue placement system to eliminate waiting times. For wayfinding functionality, you will need both beacon and geofencing technology.
• Electronic Health Records (EHR). Most patients don’t know how to access their medical records and don’t remember their medication history. Most physicians want patients to be actively involved when it comes to managing their health information, and there is an increased demand from people to access their own records. With EMR app integration, doctors can easily identify conditions and make informed decisions on an individual basis, and patients can review their treatment protocols. There’s still the big issue of data fragmentation, which leads to treatment delays – perhaps hospital applications should seek ways to unify records from different providers.
• Prescription management. If a hospital supports electronic prescriptions, this can be integrated into the facility’s app. Along with access to medical records, having prescription refills is among the top requested features among ehealth users. Check out our blog post on drug delivery applications to learn how electronic prescriptions can be shared and allow users to order medicines online.
• Telehealth. Sometimes it makes sense to replace follow-up visits with online calls. To enabling this, you can integrate various chat options in a hospital app. For more details, read our post on telehealth app development.
• Emergency calls. Users should have the option to make a one-tap call via the app.
• Condition-specific instructions. A hospital app can provide valuable information regarding chronic illnesses to either educate the general public or improve care planning for patients with chronic conditions.
• Basic health monitoring and wearable support. The health information gathered by patients via wearable devices or fitness applications can also improve treatment processes. Consider integrating popular wearables and tracking apps.
• Internal communication and document exchange. To improve interaction and communication between different hospital workers, integrate an internal chat function. It should be secure and used on hospital-owned devices. For more details, read our post on secure messaging. If there’s a need to scan documents, you will need visual recognition technology.
• Patient traffic and facility management. Room occupancy, staff status, and medication inventory can all be tracked via hospital app.