With the continuous popularization of mobile devices such as smartphones, the number of people covered by the mobile Internet is getting larger and larger. Health care, as an indispensable factor in our lives, is also booming with the craze of mobile Internet. A very intuitive phenomenon is that there are more and more medical-related mobile applications. In 2011, there were approximately 44 million downloads of medical applications.
People no longer need to queue up to register for medical treatment for minor illnesses. They can do it at home using their mobile phones. These applications provide medical knowledge, use sensors to check their bodies, and then summarize the data. , these data can also be saved to the cloud to facilitate future medical record inquiries. There are also mobile applications for both patient and doctor identities, so that doctors can seek medical treatment online.
I have to say that this brings great convenience to people and saves medical expenses. The mobile medical industry also achieved high-profit revenue this year, with total revenue reaching 718 million in 2011.
Then again, since there is such a good market, more entrepreneurs will definitely join this wave. The result is that a large number of mobile medical applications will be born. Faced with such a huge number of mobile medical applications in the app store, With so many applications, it becomes a difficult problem for users to choose.
Users cannot guarantee that the downloaded applications are safe and reliable, nor do they know which application has the best experience, so they rely on government departments for supervision. If developers want to develop such applications, they must pass the food and drug administration review, otherwise the app will not be able to be logged into the app store.
This measure will filter out many spam applications and provide the most basic protection for users’ health. At the same time, in order to facilitate users to classify and summarize medical applications, the medical application store was born, and there is also a A cooler name is online hospitals. This type of store focuses on the aggregation of health and medical applications and related services.
2011 was a year of explosive growth in health and medical applications, and the revenue of the mobile health industry also achieved exponential growth. As mentioned earlier, in the face of promising markets, entrepreneurs’ vision is Sharp, so the competition is also very fierce, and the market has also entered a period of flat development or even saturation after experiencing its peak.
Authoritative organizations in related fields have predicted that by 2016, the revenue of the mobile health industry will be 400 million U.S. dollars, which is indeed a significant decrease from 718 million U.S. dollars. Even so, we are still optimistic about the prospects of this industry and believe that 2012 will bring more surprises.