From February to September, Google’s Android smart phone saw a 156.6% increase in the number of available health-related apps, compared with a 66.6% increase in Apple’s health-related apps, according to a new MobiHealthNews report.The report found that the number of health-related apps in BlackBerry’s App World increased by 141.4%.
As of September, Apple’s App Store offered the highest number of health-related apps at 7,136, followed by Google Android at 1,296 and BlackBerry at 338.
Since February, the number of health-related apps on these three platforms increased by 78%.
Results are based on an analysis of three mobile device platforms from February to September 2010.
Source: MobiHealthNews, “Fastest Growing and Most Successful Health and Medical Apps”