5 Categories of Health & Beauty Apps
Clinical and diagnostic apps are created for both patients and doctors. Patients can use such apps to check test results, book appointments, consult with doctors, compare clinic service prices, and read about medications and conditions. Doctors use these apps to manage patient records, review previous treatments, build databases, and search for patients by name, location, or phone number.
For patients in Ukraine, there's ML DILA — focused on lab tests, access to lab networks, online booking, and results. A similar app is Invitro — a patient-facing app for a lab chain that helps users find medical offices or diagnostics centers, view hours, service details, and map routes from their location to the lab.
A good example for doctors is Synevo Doctor — an app for patient tracking, booking Synevo lab tests with pricing, viewing past appointments and lab results.
Remote monitoring apps — trackers — allow users to track health status in real time. These include heart rate apps like Cardiograph and Heart Rate Monitor , as well as fitness and sleep trackers, and period calendars for women.
Reminder apps help users remember when to take medication, visit a doctor, start treatment, or undergo a procedure. You can find many by searching Pill Reminder in Google Play.
Healthy lifestyle (wellness) apps help users eat better, sleep better, and stay active. They include calendars, reminders, tips, exercise tutorials, sleep/activity/weight trackers.
Medical knowledge base apps include directories of tests, diseases, and medications. They are used by both patients and doctors. Example interface: Medical & Drugs Dictionary . These databases often integrate with other app categories — most fitness, diet, sleep, or clinical apps include reference content.
4 Technologies of Good Health-care UI/UX
Human Connection
In healthcare, communication with other users and experts is especially important. Whether it's weight loss, fitness, bodybuilding, nutrition, or yoga at home — people want to connect with experts or at least a more experienced friend. Clinical and diagnostic apps should offer access to doctors. Human-centric support is well executed in Epocrates and Doximity . Wellness apps may offer access to trainers or communities for theory sharing.
Wholeness
Healthcare can't leave pain unresolved — because the user feels it physically. It’s inconvenient to order a taxi or find a place in a new city. But health is more sensitive. People want their test results without hospital lines and the stress they bring.
A complete app solves pain points simply, naturally, and fully.
Example: the personal trainer app Keep .
The user’s goal: a fit body, working out from home, without spending a fortune on a personal coach.
How the app solves this pain:
Evidence-Based Approach
Tips, claims, training and nutrition plans must be based on research, developed by doctors, trainers, nutritionists, or pharmacists. You can’t assume when it comes to health — you must rely on science, studies, and proven methods.
Thoughtful Notifications
Notifications are important in general, but especially in tracking and wellness apps that rely on reminders and progress updates. Create a system for visually differentiating notification types.
For example, your app reminds users to take a pill and also about an upcoming doctor appointment. To avoid confusion and add urgency, use visual differences — colors, fonts, animation.
Color choices matter too — white and blue for clinical apps; pastel colors like pink (as in Flo) for self-monitoring apps.
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