Offshore Mobile Application Development-Overview-Trends

In past few years’, mobile and internet technologies have shown tremendous growth across the world. At present both technologies have become an integral part of our day to day life. There are various web and mobile applications being developed to fulfill the various business and individual requirements.

In recent years, with continuous development in IT and telecom Industry mobile application development has shown prominent growth across the globe. Mobile phones that were introduced as a communication device in last decade have now become multifunctional devices. Apart from advancements in technology, it has been seen that usage pattern for mobile phones and devices has been changed over the years.  As a result, the majority of users now prefer smart phones over laptops and desktops in order to use variety of applications as per the requirement. At present, because of effective integration of mobile and internet technologies there are various types of mobile applications and web applications available that fulfill both business and individual needs of communication and information access.

According to one of the research conducted recently, there will be huge demand of mobile applications in next 5 years and it has been estimated that approximately 80 billion mobile applications will be downloaded by 2014. In terms of industry size, mobile application development industry is estimated to exceed US $ 35 billion in next 3 years. In order to tap the potential market many software and web development companies now also act like an offshore mobile application development company.

Mobile application development is a kind of process under which, developed applications act as a value added feature in a mobile device. These applications may work with or without internet connection, depends upon the technology used. There are various pre-installed mobile applications available that come with mobile devices and others can also be downloaded from various mobile application distribution platforms and stores.

Mobile application development is done by using different technology platforms. These mobile application development platforms are iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, iPad, Windows Mobile and J2ME Mobile. Each mobile technology platform is different and applications developed in one platform can’t be run on other platform. That means, if an application is developed in Android platform then it can’t be run on iPhone or any other platform based device.

There has been tremendous scope for developing applications catering to various needs. Mobile applications are developed for fulfilling the various requirements and not restricted to specific category, sector or feature. There are various mobile applications available in the market targeting industries like education, finance, media, internet, supply chain, healthcare, e-commerce, games, insurance, banking, travel, hospitality, music, manufacturing, social networking  and many others. These applications are well equipped with number of features like news, CRM, project management, messaging, video conferencing, GPS and many others.

At present, with growing mobile and telecom market it has been easily said that offshore mobile application development is going to be one of the most prominent services available for business and consumers in market across the globe.

Healthcare Software Web Application Development -Advantage Overview

In recent years, healthcare sector has seen a prominent growth across the globe. With increased implementation of internet and web technologies, healthcare service providers and hospitals can now easily manage complex medical records and procedures in order to provide secure and trusted services.

Since, healthcare sector is directly associated with human life, therefore it has been considered one of the most sensitive sectors among others. Due to this, this sector faces many challenges like increasing patient expectations, demand for lower healthcare cost, continuous research & development, managing complex procedures and sensitive records. Considering the amount of versatile nature of service, healthcare organizations are now moving towards using healthcare software development and web applications in-order to make the process easy and secure.  Providing safe, reliable and effective and timely healthcare service with high level of trust and compliance has become the prime concerns of healthcare service providers.

At present, in fast moving and demanding environment it is very difficult to manage healthcare related process by using traditional paper-based methods. Therefore, to make the process easy and accessible, in past few years, healthcare organizations are gradually shifting towards integrated software and web solutions for healthcare services. Because of advancement in technology and internet, organizations can now use custom healthcare software development and can streamline the process.

The healthcare sector is a complex industry and broad in nature. It consists of healthcare service providers (hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and doctors), manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, vendors in addition to patients. The transaction involved in healthcare service needs large amount of information and data to be communicated and exchanged securely. Therefore, organizations need to integrate and maintain the data within defined and regulated process and ensure the regulatory compliance. Organizations feel that, there is an urgent need to integrate an automated and organized system in order to provide satisfactory services to their patients. Considering these challenges, healthcare software development companies provide custom healthcare software web development to healthcare and medical service providers including pharmaceutical and life science, bio-technology organizations.

A healthcare software web application is a tool that can manage various processes such as effective distribution of medical information, healthcare data warehousing, healthcare data analytics, integration of manufacturing and supply chain process, medical billing, research & development, regulatory compliance management, appointment management etc. Through customized software, organizations can prevent the mishandling of process and reduce the errors. They can centralized various common processes and easily maintain the patient’s medical records with high security that can be accessed any time by authorized users. There could be various kind of healthcare software depending up-on the requirement.  For example, EMR (Electronic Health Record) is a kind of software that can monitor the patient medical record and other related information. It provides current and historical information such as cause of decease, drug usage, billing information etc.

One of the most important characteristics of healthcare software web application is that it needs to be easy to use and user friendly, so that users can use it in effective manner.

Considering the significance associated, the offshore healthcare software and web development has become a necessity for healthcare service providers in order to provide smooth and better service and in coming time it is going to be widely used across the service providers.