TeleHealth apps speed up the treatment of a variety of medical conditions. Accessible, handy, and convenient, such services decrease barriers and provide affordable and timely access.

Let's start with the five key stages of the Telemedicine application's lifecycle:

1. Idea validation and MVP development. Market research, competitor study, and niche evaluation are necessary at the project's onset. All the data should be used to define the MVP requirements and keep the development on schedule for a speedy launch.

2. Initial launch and feedback aggregation. The mobile/web app beta launch should be followed by a detailed user feedback analysis. Common complaints and errors should be fixed first to ensure early adopters continue using the app. Feature suggestions should be aggregated and added to a list of potential updates.

3. Marketing and sales campaign. Ideally combined with the beta launch stage, marketing and sales campaigns focus on

• attracting new customers
• extending customer lifetime value
• enhancing user retention & utilization rate

4. Scale-up or pivot. Once the company achieves product-market fit, the choice lies between

1. adding advanced features and scaling to support increasing numbers of users
2. pivoting the business towards a more profitable niche

Both routes may require extensive investment and additional development.

5. Ongoing monitoring and updates. To attract new users and ensure the existing ones are satisfied, the team must keep a close eye on user feedback and introduce changes and updates clear and timelessy.

Creating a minimum viable product (MVP) is the cheapest and fastest way to validate your idea and learn a market demand. Most Telemedicine startups, like Babylon or Amwell, started with an MVP.

In Agile methodologies, Telehealth app development is usually divided into several steps:

1. Project discovery and estimation. At this stage, the business development team learns everything you're willing to share about the project, creates a comprehensive list of requirements, and estimates the time and resources necessary to complete the MVP. You will receive a system requirement specification (SRS), timeframes, and budget estimate. At this stage, you can decide what features to develop first and what should wait for future upgrades.

2. Choosing the right tech stack and architecture design. Considering your requirements and the chosen platform (web, desktop, iOS, Android), the CTO or Tech Lead suggests the most suitable frameworks, libraries, languages, technical approaches, and business logic for your project. necessary.

3. UI/UX wireframes and interactive prototyping. In keeping with user-centered trends, the design team provides you with a set of interface wireframes for an initial UI evaluation. Once you agree on user flows and journeys through the app, you'll also get an interactive prototype to let you experience user interactions with the app first-hand.

4. MVP development and testing. The software engineers work on your project along with designers and business analytics to fulfill the functional and non-functional requirements. Sprints result in a new update and demo to keep you apprised of the development progress. Unless you change requirements on the go, the project will be ready for launch within the estimated timeframe.

The Telemedicine market is booming, and now is a high time for building a Telehealth app and joining the race for the patient. There are plenty of monetization opportunities for B2B and B2C business models. Investors are showing steady support for companies offering end-user solutions and white-label platforms.

If you decide to join the fray, start with an MVP development and keep the core features to a minimum to validate the idea fast and cheaply. And once you receive initial customer feedback, the next steps will become clear.