DeviceAnywhere is an end-to-end mobile application testing, test automation and application monitoring company that over the years has helped many different industries fine tune the quality of their mobile offerings. DeviceAnywhere recently noticed that during the past year there has been a marked uptick in healthcare-related applications that sought out their testing services. As a company that has monitored the rise of interest in the mobile platform across various industries, DeviceAnywhere's perspective highlights the growing popularity of mHealth.
"Healthcare has now gotten it's foot into the mobile channel," DeviceAnywhere CEO and co-founder Faraz Syed told MobiHealthNews in a recent interview. "Mobile is now one of the critical channels to reach the consumer market -- it started a few years ago with media and entertainment companies... and last year it was the banking and travel companies" that began exploring the mobile channel. Now DeviceAnywhere has noticed a lot of activity in mobile healthcare.
"In the healthcare sector we have been successful in securing a number of software vendors as well as large companies, including one of the largest health insurers in the nation -- as they start providing ongoing health management software and services to consumers," Syed said. "The companies that we are working with include EosHealth, Humana's Sensei and StratREF and that national health care services provider," which has more than 25 million customers in the U.S. Syed explained that the health care services provider was not ready to announce its mobile plans just yet so it's name is as yet undisclosed.
DeviceAnywhere does not use simulators or emulators -- instead it uses an automated platform hooked up to actual mobile phones, to test usability and reliability of the application, including what happens when the user presses the device's buttons or taps on certain areas of touch screens. The system also monitors the applications for problems that occur with the way it is displayed on a given phone's screen or the way the service sounds through a given phone's speakers.
Read on for the block quotes from the press release announcing DeviceAnywhere's recent wireless healthcare customers, EosHealth and Sensei:
EosHealth: “Now that we’re using DeviceAnywhere to test the reliability and functionality of our mobile applications, we have the increased confidence that EosHealth users’ interactions will be just as dependable, private and clear as the conversations they’re having in their doctor’s office,” said Kimon Angelides, CEO of EosHealth. “Considering the enhanced customer experience of our health and wellness platform, and all the time-saving benefits for our development team, we should have been using DeviceAnywhere Test Center from the beginning.”
Sensei: “While the most important contribution of DeviceAnywhere is their role in helping deliver a quality experience for our users, we never lose sight of the time- and cost-savings that their testing platform has afforded our IT group. For instance, as we’ve migrated to our new technology platform supporting more than 300 devices from only two builds, compared to our earlier system with 87 builds for 121 mobile devices, Device Anywhere’s technology enabled us to effectively and efficiently deliver the new platform” said Timothy Dion, CIO of Sensei. “All in all, we’ve calculated that the DeviceAnywhere solution has saved us more than 40 percent in operating expenses.”
