{"id":26538,"date":"2021-02-18T10:46:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T10:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/?p=26538"},"modified":"2023-02-14T10:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T10:09:57","slug":"how-to-develop-telemedicine-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/how-to-develop-telemedicine-app\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Develop a Telemedicine App in 2023? [A Technical Guide]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A kind reminder: A telemedicine app is not a video calling app! <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is limitless, game-changing and complex.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it was so easy to develop a telemedicine app, we would have never invested our time writing a dedicated blog on it!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another reason we are writing this dedicated blog is that – the technical implementation while developing a telemedicine app influences budget, time and app\u2019s success greatly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, without further ado, let us share all the technical elements of the telemedicine system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Develop a Telemedicine App?: 8 Technical Pillars of a Successful Telemedicine App\/Platform\/System<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Be it a cross-platform app, native app or web app, the following technical elements must be addressed while developing a telemedicine app. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1)<\/strong> EHR\/EMR Integration<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Imagine a scenario where the physician on a telemedicine app has no access to the medical history of the patients he is having a video visit with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The physician either has to ask patients several questions regarding their medical history or write prescriptions without knowing their medical history. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In either way, the physician cannot offer quality care (without easy access to the medical data of patients). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why it is important to integrate EHR into your telemedicine app. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An EHR is software that stores all patient data generated by different healthcare providers such as hospitals, labs etc. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a successful EHR integration, the physicians can instantly get access to all patient data from the app itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re a healthcare provider and adopting a telemedicine app for internal use, you should also consider integrating the EMR you are using in-house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This makes it easy to transfer all of your patient data from EMR to the app. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenging part: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interoperability – the ability of EHR\/EMR and your telemedicine system to exchange and make use of information – has been the major challenge while integrating EHR\/EMR.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thus, there is a standard set for achieving interoperability. It is known as FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While carrying out EHR integration, the developers must write code according to the standards provided by FHIR.<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2)<\/strong> Video Calling API Integration<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The major feature of the telemedicine app is its advanced video calling ability that promotes collaboration over communication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, developers cannot achieve advanced video calling abilities by writing code natively. They must integrate third-party video calling API for a seamless video calling experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vonage, Twilio are a few examples of a video calling API. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These video calling APIs charge a monthly fee based on the usage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twilio charges $0.0015 per minute for its p2p video calling API.<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3)<\/strong> Payment API Integration<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Telemedicine app users who aren\u2019t covered under any insurance plan must pay a visit fee through the app itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here also, developers cannot code the entire payment module effectively. Thus, they integrate payment API into your telemedicine software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this integration, the users of your app can make payments using several payment methods and the amount instantly gets transferred into your account.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Payment<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stripe, Paypal are examples of the payment API. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These payment APIs charge a few percent on each transaction value. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, Stripe charges 2.9% + C$0.30 on each transaction.<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4)<\/strong> ePrescription<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After video calling, ePrescription is another vitally important feature of the telemedicine app. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It enables physicians to write the prescription online and easily shares it with pharmacists to fill it.<\/span>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pharmacy\u2019s prescription management system receives the prescription sent by the physicians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This entire system-based process eliminates the scope for any manual coordination work or paper-based work.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it will take months for developers to develop such an ePrescribing solution from scratch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, they would prefer to integrate a plug-and-play ePrescribing solution provided by top industry players.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read our detailed guide on: Prescription app for doctors<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5)<\/strong> Billing Codes<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In Alberta, Ontario and B.C., televisit with physicians is covered under the provincial health insurance plan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meaning, any resident from these provinces who have a health card is eligible for free televisit with the physician. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In these provinces, the government pays the physicians for televisits on behalf of the patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But to get the visit fee, the physicians should claim it using the billing codes. Each fee code corresponds to a specific dollar amount.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, your app should have a module that enables physicians to claim the visit fee by entering the billing codes and other details from the app itself.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To accomplish this, developers must integrate top healthcare billing software such as ClinicAid, Dr. Bill, Md Billing etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Billing<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Here it is worth mentioning that there are different billing codes in different provinces and not all billing software supports the billing codes of all provinces. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6)<\/strong> Health Card Number Validation<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Imagine a scenario where a patient books a virtual appointment with the physician by entering all details including his health card number. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the questions are, is the entered health card number valid? And if valid, who is going to validate it and how? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your app should be developed in such a way that it either automatically validates the health card number or lets physicians validate the health card number manually from the app itself. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, many billing software offer built-in health card validation (HCV) features. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This allows you to validate the health card number of patients automatically when they enter the details while booking the virtual appointment with the physicians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

7)<\/strong> Compliance<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You must be thinking, compliance is the legal thing, not the technical thing!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are thinking so, you are horribly wrong. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because Canadian data privacy laws outline many technical requirements to be fully compliant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, there is one requirement under PHIPA – healthcare providers cannot collect and use health cards and health numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To meet this requirement, your app should be \u2018technically\u2019 developed in such a way that it validates the health card number and later automatically destroys the health card number data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many such requirements that require a technical implementation to actually satisfy those requirements and be fully compliant with the data privacy laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

8)<\/strong> Sophisticated Matching Algorithms<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you are planning to develop an on-demand telemedicine app where the app itself finds the perfect physician instantly for the patient, the app should work on sophisticated algorithms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These algorithms consider real-time factors such as the patient’s requirements, location, physician\u2019s availability to instantly schedule a virtual visit with the physician. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These algorithms make sure that a patient gets access to a physician within 2-5 minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s it for today. If you still have doubts, you can contact our healthcare experts for a free consultation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Develop Custom Telemedicine App From Scratch and Also Provide Ready-To-Use White-Label Telemedicine Solution <\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We’re an Ontario-based healthcare-centric app development company.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have been proactively solving the challenges of the Canadian healthcare industry for 8+ years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our team accommodates app developers, app designers, business experts and even compliance experts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meaning, we don\u2019t only solve technical issues but help you with business and compliance too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being a Canadian company, we understand the gravity of compliance. Thus, we only develop a healthcare compliant telemedicine app.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following are some of the real screenshots of our white-label telemedicine app<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A kind reminder: A telemedicine app is not a video calling app!  It is limitless, game-changing and complex.   If it was so easy to develop a telemedicine app, we would have never invested our time writing a dedicated blog on it!\u00a0 Another reason we are writing this dedicated blog is that – the technical implementation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow to Develop a Telemedicine App in 2023? [A Technical Guide]<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Are you wondering how to develop a telemedicine app in 2023? 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