“During the HIMSS event in Atlanta last week MobiHealthNews made some news of our own when we launched our first research report: MobiHealthNews Presents: The World of Health and Medical Apps. During the six weeks leading up to HIMSS, the MobiHealthNews team scoured the close to 7,000 smartphone applications that are designated as health or medical related in application stores including iPhone’s AppStore, Google’s Android Market, BlackBerry’s App World, Palm’s App Catalog and Nokia’s Ovi Store.
We discovered that less than 6,000 apps found within these stores are actually health, medical or fitness related. We then evaluated which of these apps were intended for use by consumers and patients and which were intended for use by healthcare professionals. Overall, there is about a 70-30 split for intended user: About 70 percent of all health-related smartphone apps are intended for use by consumers, while about 30 percent are intended for use by healthcare professionals.”
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews, 11 March 2010
