Industry experts predict a significant increase in the use of smart phone health applications.
A recent report from research2guidance — a research and consulting company that specializes in the mobile market — predicts that in the next five years an estimated 1.4 billion people will use smart phones worldwide and that more than one out of every three people with a smart phone will have a health-related app on their phone.
In an iHealthBeat Special Report by Kelly Wilkinson, experts discuss the growing use of mobile health apps.
The Special Report includes comments from:
Brian Ahier, health IT evangelist at Mid-Columbia Medical Center in Oregon and chair of the state’s Health Information Technology Oversight Council’s Technology Workgroup;
Ralf-Gordon Jahns, managing director of research2guidance; and
Peter Waegemann, vice president of mHealth Initiative (Wilkinson, iHealthBeat, 12/15).