MindSea Digital Health Blog
News and insights on mobile app development, design, and digital healthcare
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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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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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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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Code vs. No-Code for App Development: Programming Pros and Cons
To code or not to code? That is the question. Entrepreneurs often wonder which approach will work best, but whether or not you should leverage no-code solutions for your product depends on your goals. When one of our partners asks which solution they should choose, our initial answer always derives from a thorough understanding of… Read more
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MindSea named Canada’s top React Native developer
We’re excited to announce that MindSea is currently ranked as the best React Native developer in Canada by Clutch, a market insight expert company that gathers data-driven performance feedback. Driven by our client reviews, our ability to deliver successful projects, and a five-star rating, this is a huge honour for our team and reflects our… Read more
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Doctors Need Apps Too: Designing Digital Health Experiences With Clinicians In Mind
We’ve written extensively on balancing patient/physician needs in app design. But what about specifically developing apps for doctors? Here, we’ll focus on key strategies for conceiving, designing, and prototyping digital health apps meant to serve clinicians. 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
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Moving Digital Health, Episode 4: David Burns of Halterix
In the fourth episode of Moving Digital Health, the new podcast from MindSea, CEO Reuben Hall talks with Dr. David Burns of Halterix. David holds a PhD in biomedical engineering and is currently in training, at the University of Toronto, to become an orthopedic surgeon-scientist. As if that weren’t enough, he is also the chairman… Read more
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Deep dive on how to use blueprints for health tech product strategy
If you’ve spent any time in the digital health space, we’re sure you’ve heard the term “service blueprint” come up a few times—and that’s a good thing! Service blueprints can be an enormously helpful strategic tool for clarifying the process and timing of a project’s developmental stages across all stakeholders. Plus, by creating a diagram… Read more
