A rise in demand for patient-centric ecosystems, where app developers, mobile vendors, and healthcare professionals collaborate with the medical industry to offer a patient-centric approach in the medical sector boost Patient-centric healthcare app market growth. Further, the rapid digitization of the world and the rise in smartphone penetration are expected to boost the market growth. However, changes to patient-centric approaches are expensive, healthcare professionals are not adequately trained, and the supply-to-demand ratio is low. Also, the increase in the demand for innovative patient-centric applications in the market, as well as the transition toward digitalized healthcare are expected to stimulate the market, providing a wealth of opportunities for key vendors. The global patient-centric healthcare app market is segmented by technology, operating systems, categories, end users, and regions.
Deloitte conducted a survey that found more than 260,000 health apps are used across the globe and 70% of people manage one or more health conditions using an app. In 2014, FICO conducted a survey of nearly 2,500 adults in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Australia, China, Germany, Japan, India, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, Brazil, and Turkey about the use of smartphones during provider interactions.
Patients expect better quality of care, better reimbursement models, and better outcomes due to the launch of new policies and technological innovations, driving the global market for patient centric health care apps. Rise in occurrence of chronic diseases, better lifestyles expectancy, and affected person enablement and empowerment additionally improve the boom of the worldwide affected person centric fitness care app marketplace. Major restraints of the affected person centric fitness care app marketplace encompass regulatory uncertainties, moral issues, facts safety & privacy, security, loss of standardization, and coffee ranges or lack of awareness of fitness and virtual literacy.
Top key players operating in Patient centric healthcare app market include Philips, iPatientCare, MobileSmith, Klick Health, and Health Fabric,Careology,Innomar Strategies, Netmeds.