MindSea Digital Health Blog
News and insights on mobile app development, design, and digital healthcare
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Taking a Patient-oriented Approach to Developing a Family Mental Health App
When the University of Manitoba’s research team set out to develop a digital health app for their BEAM program—designed to support family mental health and ease parenting stress—they knew they needed more than just a developer. They needed a true partner. That’s why they chose MindSea. Through open communication and strong, ongoing collaboration, they tapped… Read more
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From Research to Reality: Overcoming Challenges in Academic Digital Health App Development
Digital health apps are reshaping healthcare and transforming patients’ lives with every download. Whether it’s through remote patient monitoring, collecting accurate health data, connection to other patients, improving workflow efficiency and experience to ease the burden on physicians, or even virtual consults, the possibilities these apps open up often seem endless. Universities and academic institutions… Read more
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Top Digital Health App Features in 2023
At MindSea, we don’t just design and develop apps. While it is the primary focus of our work, it’s more common for us to work with clients on more complex “digital ecosystems” that include a mobile app, one or more responsive websites, a secure backend and integrations with smart devices and wearables. We see it… Read more
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Seven Mobile App Statistics to Know in 2023
In 2023, mobile apps will generate $543 billion in revenue. That’s impressive. Have you ever wondered what drives someone to use (or not use) a mobile app? Or what type of mobile app they’re likely to use the most? Or how much time they’re spending in the mobile apps they download? In this post, we’ve… Read more
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Moving Digital Health, Episode 17: Carmen Branje from Maple
Our guest this week on Moving Digital Health was Carmen Branje, Director of Product Design for Maple, Canada’s leading online medical care platform, providing virtual access to reputable, Canadian-licensed healthcare providers. Listen to this podcast episode to hear Carmen discuss with Reuben Hall, CEO of MindSea Development, the challenges of designing for critical digital health… Read more
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Should You Build A Mobile App In 2023?
Mobile apps continue to become more and more essential to the daily lives of Canadians. Since 2019, according to data.ai’s annual “State of Mobile” report for 2023, average hours spent on mobile per day in Canada has risen from just over 3 hours a day to 4.6 hours a day – an almost 50% increase.… Read more
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The MindSea Approach to Design
At MindSea, we believe great design starts with understanding the needs of the people who will use the service or product, and begins with conducting intentional work to build that understanding. We combine and apply the thinking and techniques from Human-Centered Design (HCD), User-Centered Design (UCD), User Experience (UX), and Service Design to employ a… Read more
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Ready to improve your digital health app? Here’s how.
The rise of digital health apps empowers patients, clinicians, and researchers alike. These apps bring the ability to monitor and manage health to the devices we use every day, with offerings ranging from virtual doctor visits to personal diet management. COVID-19 caused a sharp increase in the development of new digital health apps, with an… Read more
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Deep Dive on How to Prototype a Digital Health App
In this blog post, we’ll draw on our experience launching mobile apps to share the steps needed to create a digital health app prototype. We’ve previously detailed how to prototype an app, with an extra focus on how to spark interest from investors. While gaining funding is a very important part of the process for… Read more
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An Overview of ISO Policy For Health and Wellness Apps
The Health and Wellness industry is growing at a rapid rate. We recently covered many of the interesting mobile health app statistics for 2022, but consider the following market figures: The global mHealth apps was valued at USD 38.2 billion in 2021 and is expected to expand to almost 12% more by 2030. The global… Read more
