“mHealth Initiative is developing an overview of the exploding field of clinical and consumer healthcare applications available on mobile devices (mDevices). Of the wide-ranging 100,000 iPhone apps, approximately 2000 are healthcare related. Close to an additional 3000 healthcare applications are available for other types of smartphones. Some of these 5000 healthcare apps have very widespread adoption. Epocrates, for example, reports more than 100,000 users just on the iPhone and, when taking into account access through other devices, a worldwide subscriber base of 750,000 (http://www.epocrates.com/company/news/072209.html). Clearly, mHealth is advancing healthcare toward the dream of information-guided care that some visionaries expected from electronic medical records 20 years ago.”
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mHealth Observatory, 5 November 2009
