The sudden pandemic devastated every industry and even the developed economies of the world.

The lockdown scenario forced every economy to get down on its knees and look for alternatives to sustain in the market.

When healthcare and sanitation were at peak the citizen searched for technical ways to reach out to physicians to get their treatment.

Though such telemedicine apps were happily used by the chronic patients even before this pandemic.

With ease and convenience provided by telemedicine apps they are helping individuals to shape and get better in living healthy lives.

With such apps, people can stay in touch, consult their doctors and receive their services 24/7 and 365 days.

As individuals are continuously following telemedicine apps, the trends are to be taken into consideration and must remove the burden on doctors and hospitals as they can offer their services remotely.

The telemedicine market and trends has been making its way and providing better results to its services and helping them to connect better with doctors.

The improved monitoring of patients, better connection with doctors and providing services at the particular homes of patients is the need of an hour.

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1. Patient- Generated Health Data

Patient- Generated Health Data (PGHD) is a data which is related to health which includes the history of patients along with details of disease and recovery.

The data gets created by the patients unknowingly and it is a mobile app trend which offers a comprehensive picture of a patient’s health and fills the gaps in information.

Symptoms, treatment history along with its healing process, biometric data, preferences, lifestyle and all the other patterns followed by the patients gets provided on the apps which helps in diminishing the visits made to the hospitals.

2. Wearable Devices

Smart wearable devices provide a constant way to keep a track of health at all times. Fitbit, with best impressive smartwatches and wearable devices helps the patient to manage steps, sleeping time, heart and pulse rate without any specific mechanisms.

Wearable devices across North America are predicted to reach around 439 million connections which are closely followed by the Asia Pacific region in the year 2022.

From breathing, chest and heart rate. wearable devices have many sensors to keep a track and monitor all the healthcare parameters. This helps in making the best telemedicine decisions.

3. Telehealth apps

It has a 120% growth rate when compared to all the apps across the stores. Telehealth and Telemedicine apps. It is one of the fastest growing sectors in the healthcare IT industry.

The exchange of medical data of patients with the help of technology is the best and it provides convenience, cost-effective and provides better access to all the reliable doctors.

Telemedicine apps like doctor on demand and Healthtap deliver video call facilities and services where a doctor gets available to the patient on their demand or with some prior appointments.

Based on the diagnosis of doctors they will even provide you a digital prescription.

Telemedicine apps have been very popular among all the categories of patients as they often prefer to consult a doctor virtually or even schedule a conference call which is far better than paying any physical visits.

4. Communication Channels

With a good communication channel and process, the chances of getting success also keeps on improving. The communication channels in making instant messages, real-time video calls and emergency calls also improves.

Speech recognition is the best way for maintaining communication channels which helps in predicting and dominating the digital healthcare industry.

Such effective implementation in telemedicine apps, businesses provides real-time support to the patients.

As feedback of the users plays an important role, medical experts provide improvement across all the communication channels which is a new trend in the telemedicine industry.

5. Geo-Location

Geolocation is the must-have feature in a telemedicine app.

Geolocation permits a patient to use his location search for the nearby hospitals, clinics and pharmacy stores.

Even in some cases of accidents the person gets injured at an unknown location. The feature further helps an individual to make an emergency call.

The medical news and information which are provided helps the users to stay connected with the medical uncertainties taking place across the world.

6. Contact Tracing

To carry and know the cluster of coronavirus and infections which helps in restoring normal feedback.

When telehealth apps are combined  it allows silent tracking of individuals and even pings the user if any person in their contact has been tested positive for COVID-19.

In India, there is an app named aarogya setu which uses the geolocation as well as bluetooth of the smartphone to know whether the user has a person who is tested positive in his nearby location.

Concluding lines

Amidst the pandemic, the importance of healthcare increased at a gradual rate. It provides patients with insights and eases the burden on its workers when it connects patients with physicians on a virtual and remote platform.

With apple and google partnership for COVID 19 contact tracing. Efforts are being made to provide a complete solution to the healthcare problems.