Urgent care apps are smartphone applications that can be accessed remotely. These applications can be used to notify doctors and nurses about emergencies, allow the user to speak with a registered nurse who answers the user’s medical questions, and if needed, a licensed physician can answer the question. As the emergence of smartphone and huge penetration of internet to common people residing in a rural and remote area made easy to access for urgent care apps. These apps provide directions, travel time, insurance options, wait times, among others. They can notify healthcare practitioners and nurses about emergencies. These apps enable the patients to speak with healthcare professionals who can answer the user’s medical questions.
Moreover, patients who are seeking medical care, be it for themselves or others, especially during emergency or specialty care, can use these apps and receive the required help from online doctors. There are several advantages of using urgent care apps, including these apps are being highly used in homecare applications, usually by the elderly population. Urgent care apps have become a means to decrease long wait times and high ER costs. Additionally, they can help to reduce healthcare costs and act as a patient engagement tool.
The Global urgent care apps market is segmented on the basis of app type, area type, and region. Based on the app type, the market is divided into Pre-Hospital Emergency care & Triaging Apps, In-Hospital Communication & Collaboration Apps, Post-Hospital Apps. On the basis of area type, the market is divided into Trauma, Stroke, Cardiac Conditions, and Others. Based on region, the market is studied across North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and LAMEA. Among that, Europe held the largest share of the market, followed by America and the Asia Pacific. On the other hand, North America is expected to dominate the market during the analysis of the forecast period.
The key players of this market include Allm Inc., Hospify, Johnson & Johnson Health & Wellness Solutions, Inc., PatientSafe Solutions, Alayacare, Twiage LLC, TigerConnect, Siilo B.V., Imprivata, Inc. and MEDISAFE, among others.
