How Flutter Boosted Cross-Platform Mobile App Development Users by 25% in Healthcare Industry

As an experienced Flutter app development company, the Radixweb team has always been interested in developing applications for the healthcare industry globally. The time when mHealth is expanding its horizon in the name of RPM, EHR, Telemedicine, and Telehealth applications, it was valued at USD 43.5 billion in 2022 and is expected to expand at a CAGR of 11.6% from 2023 to 2030.

The above data shows that those businesses that have decided to build healthcare mobile applications can become a key to the heart of their vast audience. Moreover, the demand for patient-centered mobile applications has surged with the rise of healthcare technology. These applications are crucial platforms for enhancing patient engagement, improving health outcomes, and streamlining healthcare delivery.

As a prominent healthcare software solution provider, Radixweb embarked on a journey to leverage Flutter to develop a patient-centric cross platform application for one of its clients in Poland.

In this fast-paced world, time to market is critically important. The faster and sooner you launch your product, the better you gain a market position and earn the user’s trust before competitors do it. As a result, this strategic advantage optimizes resource allocation, maximizing your application's benefits. Eventually, this delivers more effective treatment and saves your staff time.

Yet, the question remains: How can one reduce time to market without compromising product quality?

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At Radixweb, we have been creating mobile applications for large-scale businesses, including mHealth, since 2000. Therefore, our experienced mobile app developers are aware of several methods of adding time and cost-efficiency to the development process.

Flutter was the technology that had already won our clients’ trust in several apps that we developed for various industries. We chose this cross platform mobile application development framework, considering all its functionalities, features, and seamless user experience across all platforms.

Fact Check of Healthcare App: According to Market Data Forecast, the global patient-centric healthcare app market will grow from $8 billion in 2024 to $367 billion by 2028 - a good 35.20% CAGR over the next five years.

Connecting Patients and Providers: The Journey to Mobile Healthcare Excellence

VitalMed is a large organization operating in the healthcare industry based in Poland. Specializing in telemedicine solutions, our client had an advanced mobile application aimed at facilitating remote consultations and medical appointment scheduling. VitalMed’s cross-platform mobile application has existed for several years. Moreover, they revamped the application in 2017.

The VitalMed team had a plan to expand the application. The planned exposure to new European markets such as Great Britain, Germany, and Hungary drove the introduction of new functionalities.

Seeking to elevate their application’s capabilities, VitalMed collaborated with Radixweb. When our experienced development team took over this project, our primary challenge was to further enhance new features, fix existing bugs, and upgrade to the latest technology.

A Perfect Combination of Flutter and Medical Cross Platform Mobile App

As a part of this project, we provided services such as mobile development, front end development, backend development, UI/UX design, and maintenance.

Here, we evaluated several frameworks and technologies for the cross platform mobile application development project. Flutter emerged as the ideal choice due to its numerous features and advantages:

Cross-Platform Compatibility: Flutter allows simultaneous development for both Android and iOS platforms using a single codebase. As a result, it is cost-effective and has a faster time-to-market.

Expressive UI: With Flutter's rich set of customizable widgets and extensive design capabilities, our Flutter developers could craft visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces tailored to the client's requirements.

Performance: Flutter's compiled codebase ensures high performance and smooth animations. Also, it plays an essential role in delivering a responsive and engaging user experience in a healthcare application.

Hot Reload: The Hot Reload feature facilitated rapid prototyping and iterative development, which helped our development team to swiftly incorporate client feedback and iterate on the app's features.

Dart Package: Flutter's integration with the Dart international package has streamlined the internationalization process. With support for 78 different languages, time zones, currencies, and more, this bundle made it possible for our healthcare mobile app for patients to reach a wide range of users worldwide.

Iterative Testing: "Hot reload" provided a sandbox-like environment for experimenting with various strategies for a Flutter healthcare app. Our healthcare app development team was able to quickly iterate and enhance their work by experimenting with UI elements, user interactions, and functionality.

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Reasons to Choose Flutter for Patient-Centric Healthcare Mobile Application

Google has developed a Flutter framework that is utilized in their projects, setting a standard for top companies to achieve remarkable results. With this framework gaining popularity, there's assurance in the future of technology.

According to Statista, Flutter stands as the leading and most popular cross-platform framework used by global developers. The community's rapid growth continuously enhances the framework's competitiveness.

Our development team created a set of libraries and tools to optimize Flutter app development. Our IT experts curated commonly used solutions, set strict requirements, and aligned each package accordingly. We prioritized community feedback to ensure practicality in our approach.

High Performance for Patient Monitoring

Users need urgent help or assistance when they suffer from sudden acute pain or chronic disease. Therefore, we chose the Flutter framework to deliver seamless performance to our client. We worked on the Flutter application to create a faster user experience for 120 Hz ProMotion displays.

Furthermore, with the utilization of Dart programming language and other top Flutter tools, we didn’t have to rebuild an app to review changes. This helped us deliver high application performance, thanks to Ahead-of-Time (AOT) and Just In Time (JIT) processing capabilities.

Intuitive UX/UI for Seamless Navigation

We knew Flutter could deliver a native look and feel based on our design ideas and the adaptation of screen size. Moreover, the implementation of the latest Flutter version – Flutter 3.10 made it easier to use one codebase not only for mobile applications (iOS and Android), but for web, desktop, and embedded devices (for future purposes) as well. This means that, with a limited budget and time, we were able to deliver an application that works across the platform without losing its essence- functionality.

Several Integrations

While we were developing a cross-platform application, we found many third-party APIs and tools to be integrated. We wanted to integrate calendars, navigation systems, payment gateways, data detection, and many more, considering our client’s requirements. Again, Flutter never failed to disappoint us by offering an easy third-party API integration with an easy coding structure. In fact, it helped us save around 45% of development time due to a large set of third-party tools and directories.

Healthcare and Security Standards

While developing the mHealth application, one must consider adherence to strict security and healthcare standards like HIPAA, ISO, PIPEDA, HL7, ICD-10, CPT, XDS/XDS-I, etc. for better protection of users’ data.

However, following the security standard is one side of the coin. In fact, the tech stack you choose is equally important, as the security also depends on the framework or programming language you choose.

Having said earlier, Flutter uses Dart programming language. Therefore, the entire source code is compiled into native, non-human readable code. Flutter is considerably more secure than Kotlin, Java, or React Native because it complicates the reverse rendering process.

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Efficient Data Handling

It was easy to manage data efficiently with Flutter, including background data processing, serialization, and deserialization of JSON data. Moreover, Flutter also made it easy to work with structured data using SQLite. That helped the developed application to handle complex healthcare data scenarios. That’s what makes Flutter the best mobile app development framework.

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Why We Chose Flutter Over Other Technologies for Our Healthcare Mobile App for Patients

While developing VitalMed – a mobile medical app for patients, we came across several other technologies as well – React Native and Xamarin. However, our mobile app development team did thorough research and compared each technology’s competency.

Here’s what we found:

Results We Got for Patient-Centric Healthcare Mobile App Using Flutter

The VitalMed project has resulted in a 25% rise in cross-platform mobile app users as well as a 15% improvement in operating speed. The admin panel now has hundreds of additional features, and we are constantly working to maintain and fix bugs in the system.

Through this collaboration, we were able to enhance the mobile application to enable the addition of new devices and prepare the product for international market expansion.

By embracing Flutter for a mobile application, we reaffirmed our commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technologies to address complex challenges and deliver impactful solutions.

This empowered our client and added value to the healthcare ecosystem.