Global Radiology Apps Market

Radiology Apps Market Insights

With the growing interest of the healthcare industry towards smart apps, smart devices, solutions, and software, the FDA has increased its focus towards standardizing mobile health apps for the optimum well-being and smooth function in the industry. One such FDA-approved product is the radiology apps that help doctors, oncologists, radiologists, and technicians to have an access to their patient’s diagnostic or radiological images, store them, share them and represent them for diagnostic analysis. These health apps are way different than regular fitness or wellness apps as they are exclusively developed for disease diagnosis, treatment, and management purposes. Radiology apps have given the advantage to the doctors to treat the patient outside the hospital premises and keep a record of its medical findings along with analyzing the medical images.

The market for radiology apps will be witnessing an exponential growth owing to rising focus on early disease diagnosis, extended applications of diagnostic imaging tools, increasing use of software and IT tools for image analysis and storage, rising trend of data-driven treatment plans, increasing incidence of lifestyle disorders and COVID-19 infection leading to patients undergoing imaging procedures, and rising awareness amongst healthcare workers regarding point of care disease diagnosis and cloud-based radiology image sharing management.

Radiology Apps Market: By Subscription Model

Such FDA ruled or FDA approved apps come in both forms, paid and free. The paid apps however will foresee a growth larger than the free apps owing to advanced features available for optimum image analysis and access to various research articles provided in the paid format. However, the free download segment will be growing faster as compared to the paid one from 2020 to 2026.

Radiology Apps Market: By Type of Services

Besides, just the radiation and radiology image viewing and sharing, many companies have launched their apps which can do more than just image management. Based on this, the market is segmented into single-use and multi-use apps, where the multi-use apps offer features such as a list of doctor's directory, radiology dosage management care, provision for historical medical data of individual patients, and access to the internet for research articles. The market for multi-use will however grow faster than the single-use owing to the above-mentioned features and their quick adoption amongst healthcare providers.

Radiology Apps Market: By Application

Based on the application or purpose of the apps, the market can be segregated into diagnostic imaging management, radiation management, and educational purpose. The market for diagnostic imaging management will be the largest considering the usability and features offered by the apps for diagnostic image storage, view, analysis, presentation, and sharing.

Radiology Apps Market: By End User

These apps are exclusively used by either hospitals and clinics and related doctors and by medical schools for educational purposes as they are heavily governed by the FDA. Witnessing the high number of doctors using the apps residing in hospitals and radiology clinics, the market for the same will be the highest and also the fastest growing in the coming years.

Radiology Apps Market: By Region

Owing to the presence of major healthcare IT players in the US and Canada, and the rising trend of e-analysis, the market for North America is ought to be the largest amongst APAC, Europe, and the Rest of the World. However, in the Asia-Pacific region due to the rising number of infectious disease cases, pneumonia, COVID-19, lifestyle disorders, there has been a spike in the number of diagnostic imaging procedures. This trend will support the APAC region to grow the fastest amongst all from 2020 to 2026.

Radiology Apps Market Share and Competitor Analysis

Mobile MIM, Radiology Rounds, Radiology ToolBox Pro, RadLogics, Nuance PowerShare, LifeIMAGE Mobile, Radiology Assistant 2.0, Ositrix HD, Doximity, Epocrates, GoodReader, Papers, Radiopedia, RadiDoc, Mobile REMM, Brain MRI Atlas, MIRC Viewer, Surgical Radiology, iSurf Brain View, Trello, and Novarada among others are the major players of the market.

Please note: This is not an exhaustive list of companies profiled in the report.

In September 2020, RadLogics announced the launch of its FDA cleared product namely an AI-based chest X-ray pneumothorax app.

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