Urgent Care Apps Market Size, COVID-19 Impact Analysis, Regional Outlook, Application Potential, Price Trends, Competitive Market Share & Forecast, 2022 – 2028

Urgent Care Apps Market Size is experiencing significant growth over 2022-2028, driven by their ability to track the health status of people instantly from anywhere. Advantages offered by urgent care apps include pain management function for panic situations, chronic pain guidance, immediate appointment booking, reduced hospital re-admissions, and rising product preference amongst healthcare facilities to deliver patient-centric care.
 

Urgent care apps are smart phone applications that can be remotely accessed by anyone. These apps can notify doctors and nurses about emergencies, also enabling the user to speak to a registered nurse who can answer the medical questions put up by users. Moreover, if need be, urgent care apps also allow a licensed physician to call within a few minutes.
 

Furthermore, growing production and sales of smartphones worldwide and rising penetration of 4G and 5G networks would as well escalate the urgent care apps market dynamics in the coming years. Besides, governments of various countries are taking up strategic initiatives to increase cognizance of the medical problems and the available healthcare services.
 

In addition, surging demand for virtual healthcare facilities via mobile applications will as well produce lucrative opportunities for urgent care apps solution providers. For instance, Florida Blue, in partnership with Sanitas Medical Centers, introduced a new application labelled - Florida Blue HMO myBlue Connected Care plans to enable members to get direct access to the latter’s care team with $0 co-pay. This platform would offer virtual bookings, support patients with guidance on where to seek care and manage in-person and virtual person appointments.
 

In terms of the type, pre-hospital emergency care and triaging apps segment is projected to expand potentially over the foreseeable time frame. Pre-hospital emergency care is commonly done by medical attendants and the front lines of defense in a mechanism of countering the treatment of patients at the site of accident or medical emergency report site. Moreover, the triage applications are generally utilized to support the pre-hospital process and classify patients’ conditions even before they are admitted to the Emergency Department. Apparently, the app is considered suitable for users who are not medical emergency staff and can be useful for those who want to self-diagnose their symptoms before requesting medical services. In 2019, Thailand had developed its first medical mobile application for patients triage based on Criteria Based Dispatch to support pre-hospital process.
 

Based on the clinical area, the trauma segment would foresee considerable gains across the overall urgent care apps market through 2028. Factors like a surge in the number of road accidents across different developing as well as developed nations and increasing demand for post-hospital care are responsible for the segment growth.
 

Regionally, Asia Pacific urgent care apps market is slated to account for remunerative growth over the ensuing years. This can be credited to the rising number of government initiatives, increasing investment by non-profit organizations and other companies to support the adoption of urgent care apps for crucial information exchange, improved treatment outcomes, and enhanced patient engagement. Besides, increasing penetration of smartphones and virtual care is further estimated to propel the regional market growth prospects throughout the analysis period.
 

The global urgent care apps industry is highly consolidated and boasts the presence of prominent leaders including PatientSafe Solutions, Allm Inc., Vocera Communications, Medisafe, Pulsara, Pivot Design Group, Imprivata, and Voalte (Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc.).

These players, while being involved in acquisitions, partnerships, and mergers, are seeking to bring forth novel applications in the space to solidify their positions in the overall market through the coming years.
 

COVID-19 crisis and impact on urgent care apps market share

With stringent lockdown norms and social distancing being followed by people amidst the scare of SARS-CoV-2 infection spread, virtual healthcare industry witnessed a boom during 2020 and 2021, thus pushing the growth of urgent care apps market. The demand for e-health gradually rose during the COVID-19 phase, presenting lucrative opportunities for urgent care apps market growth.
 

The urgent care apps market research report includes in-depth coverage of the industry with estimates & forecast in terms of revenue in USD from 2017 to 2028 for the following segments:

Market, by Type

• Pre-hospital Emergency Care & Triaging Apps
• In-hospital Communication & Collaboration Apps
• Post-hospital Apps
  • Medication Management Apps
  • Rehabilitation Apps
  • Care Provider Communication & Collaboration Apps

Market, by Clinical Area

• Trauma
• Stroke
• Cardiac Conditions
• Parkinson's disease
• Others

The above information is provided for the following regions and countries:

• North America
  • U.S.
  • Canada
• Europe
  • Germany
  • UK
  • France
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • Russia
• Asia Pacific
  • Japan
  • China
  • India
  • Australia
  • South Korea
• Latin America
  • Mexico
  • Brazil
  • Argentina
• Middle East and Africa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • South Africa
  • UAE
  • Qatar
     

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