Software Engineering Insights

From helping healthcare professionals in diagnosis to encouraging patients to adopt life-saving behaviour, gamification is changing the healthcare landscape in many fronts. This user engagement approach, which uses game elements and digital game design to deal with everyday problems is gaining grounds in health and fitness app industry.

The healthcare industry is embracing digital transformation at a rapid pace. This shift, which is driven by the rise of internet and technology is projected to add more power to the way value-based care is delivered.

Obsession with fitness, combined with convenience, immediacy, and flexibility is fostering the demand for health and fitness platforms. The result of this supports the rise of technologies that tracks, informs, and manages the fitness routine, such as wearables and smart watches.

For engaging user with an app, it is imperative to capture their attention and give them a medium and motivation to take an action. To foster this kind of engagement within mobile apps, gamification helps. 

The multi-trillion dollar healthcare industry is adapting to modern ways of delivering care, amongst which telehealth is the one. The idea of distributing health-related services and information through telecommunication technologies is diminishing the gap between patients and providers. By allowing both ends to make a contact, share advice, monitor health; telehealth services bring a paradigm shift in how care is delivered and received.

Back in 1930s, 40% of the doctor-patient meetings were done through house calls. This was the general practice, wherein a doctor or a professional used to visit the patient’s place, following a consultation request from them. By 1980s, this was reduced to 0.6% as the advancing technology and specialization was not reachable to patients out of clinical/hospital premises.  

The term precision medicine may be relatively new for many, but the approach has been a significant part of the healthcare industry. Basically, the concept is to understand specific requirements and characteristics of an individual, before treating them with the custom medication.

In the massive influx of technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has proven its potential with some disruptive solutions. With rapid unfolding of positive possibilities that AI can bring in, it has been revolutionizing the way businesses team up with technology, irrespective of the domain.

Businesses, irrespective of the domain are realizing the benefits of new technologies and models that originate and develop in consumer space. This impact, called consumerization has been affecting (almost) every industry and healthcare is no exception.

A patient’s accountability and engagement in their own health is reforming the care delivery system. When patients take charge of their medication, an adherence system can help them achieve the treatment or output expected.