“There will be 1.4 billion people with smartphones worldwide by 2015, and 500 million of them will be using mobile health applications, according to a new study from German analysis firm research2guidance. Smartphones will be the catalyst to bring mobile healthcare out of the “trial phase,” the Berlin-based company says.
“Our findings indicate that the long-expected mobile revolution in healthcare is set to happen. Both healthcare providers and consumers are embracing smartphones as a means to improving healthcare,” Ralf-Gordon Jahns, the company’s head of research, says in a press release posted on the research2guidance blog.”
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare, 16 December 2010
