{"id":25373,"date":"2020-11-07T12:11:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T06:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/?p=25373"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T13:52:00","slug":"telemedicine-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/telemedicine-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Business-Ready to Start a Telemedicine Business? Validate It With a Telemedicine Startup Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From your perspective, you are all set to launch the telemedicine startup.<\/span><\/p>\n

But from an expert\u2019s perspective, you might be nowhere near to launch!<\/span><\/p>\n

Why?<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Because you don\u2019t consider other crucial factors apart from the app!<\/span><\/p>\n

These crucial factors include government laws, privacy gaps, EHR integration, health card coverage, service agreement and many other things.<\/span><\/p>\n

You must be finding this complex. So, let\u2019s put it on the checklist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through this checklist, you will be able to identify how far you are from launching a telemedicine startup in the USA and Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ultimate Telemedicine Startup Checklist<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n\n

There are major 2 steps involved in launching a telemedicine app, and each stage requires a different level of engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Analysis (Your Engagement – High):<\/u><\/b><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n\n

1. Market Analysis<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Identify town, province or country to offer telemedicine service.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Identify user groups of your decided business location.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Identify the problems people are facing and how you are going to solve it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Identify characteristics or expectations of the user groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Know how your idea or app can fulfil their expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Competitive Analysis<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Identify the already serving telehealth startups\/apps in your decided business location.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Research their products, sales, and marketing strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Create solid business strategies that improve upon your competitors\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Finance (Business Model) Analysis<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Identify whether a health plan covers televisits in your decided location or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Know the number of people without health coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Identify the buying power and intent of people not having any health coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Decide the fee to be charged for televisits.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Find multiple revenue streams, i.e., partnership with employers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Calculate the capital cost and operating cost of a telemedicine app.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Calculate the break-even time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Plan out the ways to reduce break-even time.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Compliance Analysis<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Identify whether there is any healthcare specific privacy law applicable to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Identity applicable private sector privacy law at the state and federal levels.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Know requirements to be compliant with applicable privacy laws.<\/span><\/p>\n

Telehealth Compliance Full Checklist<\/span><\/a><\/center>\n

5. Marketing Analysis<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f List the value proposition for each user group.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Identify the most efficient marketing channel.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Fix the marketing budget and set the goal for the outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Determine how you will launch your app – MVP, Soft Launch or Hard Launch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Telehealth Marketing Full Checklist<\/span><\/a><\/center>\n

Implementation (Your Engagement – Medium):<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n\n

1. App Development Agency Hiring<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Do they have healthcare app development expertise and experience?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Do they have expertise with the latest technologies such as AI, ML, IoT, Blockchain?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Do they have expertise in EHR integration?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Do they have in-house healthcare compliance consultants?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f What will be the app delivery window?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Who will own the code of the app?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Does the cost include any free support?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Which development tools, language, and third-party frameworks they will use for your app?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Will they execute <\/span>TRA (Treat & Risk Assessment)<\/span><\/a><\/span> to find the vulnerabilities in the app?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Will they carry out a gap analysis to make the app most secure?<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Planning Your Telemedicine App<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Define the purpose of the mobile app and how it solves the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Are you going to develop an MVP or full-fledged app?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Are you going to develop a native or hybrid app?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Fix the feature set that includes crucial features, must-have features, and nice-to-have features.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Do feature set include features for all user groups to satisfy their different needs?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f How easy is it to use all features for new users?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Consider the user journey with respect to your decided feature set.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Use an analytics program like Firebase to measure in-app user behaviour.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Design and Development<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Do developers follow all privacy laws to develop a privacy laws compliant app?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Do you already have a design idea, or are you starting from scratch?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Carry out user usability testing to find out how easy the user journey is.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Which app delivery model the agency is following – waterfall or agile?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f How easy is it to scale up the app?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f How data-driven your app is?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Does your app handle all data as per privacy laws?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f How often does the app need support once it is launched?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Which are the APIs your app will be integrated with?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Are those APIs privacy laws compliant?<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Deployment and Maintenance<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Test app functionality and performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Carry out a gap analysis to find security vulnerabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Check dedicatedly whether a developed app is compliant with all applicable privacy laws or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Test the app on a wide selection of Android and iOS devices.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Have a system for capturing and tracking any issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Use tools that automate the running and reporting of unit tests.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Does your app follow all policies of the Apple App Store and Google Play Store?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Do you have an app description with keywords?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Create some appealing screenshots, videos, and mockups for the app launch.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Draft a plan to release frequent updates.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u274f Have a strategy to respond to app reviews on the App Store and Play Store.<\/span><\/p>\n

We <\/b>tick off all items on this checklist to ease your journey to a successful telemedicine app business.<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

We are not just an app development agency. We are beyond that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because we do not only develop telemedicine apps but provide compliance consulting, business automation, business consulting, technology consulting and workflow drafting.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, we help you start a telehealth startup from scratch and will be with you till your journey beyond glory.<\/span><\/p>\n

We do have some excellent and profitable news for you.<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n