1. Telemedicine app

There is nothing special about this, but that’s the beauty of it. The idea of a telemedicine app is so simple that it addresses the needs of almost all patients in Australia.

By building a telemedicine app, you can enable patients to have easy access to GPs and receive healthcare services completely online.

There are multiple telemedicine apps already there in Australia. However, the market size of telemedicine is so huge that it can still accommodate several other telemedicine apps!

2. Online pharmacy app

The majority of pharmacies in Australia serve patients in an offline manner. So, you have a great opportunity to build an online pharmacy app that facilitates patients to receive medicine directly at their doorstep.

In Canada and the USA, there are several pharmacy apps which have raised millions and earned the unicorn throne. The best thing about online pharmacy apps is that you can generate multiple revenue streams by selling medical devices, OTC drugs, supplements, and wellness products.

3. Mental health app

The mental health crisis is real and to deal with it, people prefer to use mobile apps as mobile apps are easily accessible, free or very affordable and really smart.

By setting up the goal and following the activities and instructions suggested by the mobile app, users can attain the highest level of mental wellness. The success recipe for mental health mobile apps is outcome-driven online therapies which are clinically backed.

The freemium model is the best monetization strategy for mental health apps.

4. Women wellness app

Women experience very unique health and wellness challenges which require a dedicated app to solve those challenges. Thus, you should build a specific app for women which is designed and built with the purpose to help women in their wellness journey.

For example, you can build a period tracker app like Flo, you can build a mental health app specifically designed for women, and similarly, you can build a women-specific weight management app. The best idea here is to build an app that helps women deal with challenges associated with menopause.

5. GP booking app (Doctor marketplace)

There is still a very big user group who prefer to have an in-person visit with GP with a prior appointment booking. So, for them, you can build a GP booking app or doctor marketplace from where users can find all nearby GPs, explore their services, fees, & times and book appointments without having to call anyone.

In addition to this, there are also many other solid healthcare app ideas you must consider if you’re planning to go for healthcare app development in Australia.

6. Mental health for students
7. Teledentisty app
8. eCommerce app for skincare (prescription)
9. On-demand caretaker booking app
10. On-demand healthcare staffing app

App development process:

Project delivery approach:

1. Pay per service

If you’re providing any healthcare or wellness service from your healthcare app, you can charge patients based on each service they choose. For instance, if you are providing online medical consultation, you can charge patients a fixed fee for each virtual consultation session.

2. Subscription plans

You can build a loyal customer base by letting them access your healthcare services via your app by paying a monthly or yearly subscription fee. One example of a subscription plan is a family subscription plan under which a subscriber can access your services for his/her entire family.

3. Freemium model

Under the freemium model, you allow all of your users to access only basic and common app features for free. But to use all advanced or premium features, you charge them a fixed fee. A very important aspect of the freemium model is making users so habituated to your app that they are ready to explore your app in detail by paying a fee.

4. Corporate partnership

You can tie up with employers and even different healthcare settings to allow them to utilize your healthcare platform for their internal use. Here, you can either charge a fixed fee or a fee based on the number of users. For example, if an employer leverages your platform to offer healthcare services to his/her all employees, you can charge some $10 per month for every employee.

• Their prior experience in healthcare IT projects
• Their healthcare IT understanding
• Their team structure
• Their healthcare mindset and healthcare IT passion
• Their post-app-delivery support
• Their app development and project delivery process
• Their healthcare clients
• Their healthcare compliance knowledge
• Their understanding of clinical workflows and clinical protocols

• A white-label healthcare app is a pre-developed app which you can acquire from an IT company after customizing its UI as per your branding.
• A custom app is an app which is developed specifically for you from scratch while following the entire product development lifecycle.
• An MVP healthcare app is an app with only basic and common features.

You should go for a white-label healthcare app:

• When your app idea is very common, such as telemedicine
• When you want to launch your app in the market within 1 month
• When you have a medium investment cap

You should go for custom healthcare app development:

• When your app idea is very unique
• When you have at least 6 months to launch your app in the market
• When you have a large investment cap

You should go for the MVP healthcare app:

• When your app idea is very unique
• When you have at least 3 months to launch your app in the market
• When you have a low investment cap

1. MVP app

You can consider building an MVP app. Since an MVP healthcare app is equipped with only basic and common features, it takes less time for developers to code the app and thus, the development cost automatically decreases. Once you test the app in the real market, you can upgrade it by adding more features in different phases to keep financial risk very low.

2. Cross-platform app

If not MVP, you can build a full-fledged and feature-packed cross-platform healthcare app. A cross-platform app works on both iOS and Android devices with a single codebase. Meaning, developers have to write code only one time which reduces development time and so does development cost.

3. Progressive web app

You can also consider Progressive Web App (PWA) which looks and works the same as a mobile app but opens on web browsers. Building PWA is almost 20 to 40% more affordable than building a mobile app. PWA supports some of the advanced features such as background updates, offline access, fast reloading, engaging UI/UX etc.

Case study #1: Building a web app for the Transitional Care Unit to order and track medical equipment online

Case study #2: Kicking phone calls and paperwork out from workflows of uninsured medical services with a web app