2014
DOI: 10.5210/ojphi.v5i3.4814
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Mobile medical and health apps: state of the art, concerns, regulatory control and certification

Abstract: This paper examines the state of the art in mobile clinical and health-related apps. A 2012 estimate puts the number of health-related apps at no fewer than 40,000, as healthcare professionals and consumers continue to express concerns about the quality of many apps, calling for some form of app regulatory control or certification to be put in place. We describe the range of apps on offer as of 2013, and then present a brief survey of evaluation studies of medical and health-related apps that have been conduct… Show more

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“…Clinicians use smartphone apps for drug guides, medical calculations and billing (Franko & Tirrell, 2012). Apps are also available for citizens to use for monitoring aspects of health and wellbeing, and the most commonly addressed health conditions are diabetes, diet and exercise, smoking cessation and mental health (Boulos, Brewer, Karimkhani, Buller, & Dellavalle, 2014;Martínez-Pérez, de la Torre-Díez, & López-Coronado, 2013) and the most common intervention strategy is tracking. Amongst apps used to monitor health, Bennett (2015) notes the difference between apps that protect health and encourage good health behaviours and those that purport to monitor physical parameters and possibly detect the presence of disease.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Clinicians use smartphone apps for drug guides, medical calculations and billing (Franko & Tirrell, 2012). Apps are also available for citizens to use for monitoring aspects of health and wellbeing, and the most commonly addressed health conditions are diabetes, diet and exercise, smoking cessation and mental health (Boulos, Brewer, Karimkhani, Buller, & Dellavalle, 2014;Martínez-Pérez, de la Torre-Díez, & López-Coronado, 2013) and the most common intervention strategy is tracking. Amongst apps used to monitor health, Bennett (2015) notes the difference between apps that protect health and encourage good health behaviours and those that purport to monitor physical parameters and possibly detect the presence of disease.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is frequently stated in the literature that there is a glut of health apps on the market, and further that there is a significant gap between consumer products and scientific validation with developers seeing success in terms of revenue rather than improvement in patient outcome (Boulos et al, 2014). These apps are often developed without citizen and/or clinician involvement and are often not evidence based.…”
Section: Australasian Journal Of Information Systems Day Humphrey and mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…the Medscape app [1,8]. According to a survey in the UK, published in 2012, 74.8% of junior doctors and 79% of medical students owned a smartphone, with the majority of both groups reporting that they used between 1 to 5 healthcare apps on their smartphones [4].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Recent advances in mobile technologies have opened new approaches to support healthcare delivery and patient education. These approaches have the potential to encourage patients to be more involved actively in their own healthcare and to be part of the decision-making process [8]. Some health apps are focused only on specific diseases such as the ophthalmology "Eye Handbook" app [13] and "The Few Touch" for diabetes app [14].…”
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“…Broadly, mHealth might be considered a sub-set of eHealth, but with a specific focus on smartphone technologies, in particular how apps are developed and used on these phones for health and fitness purposes (e.g., MS Energise, a new app that facilitates fatigue management using cognitive behavioural techniques). The combination of rapid industry growth and a lack of quality assurance has generated concerns of potential risk to patients' physical and psychological safety (Boulos, Brewer, Karimkhani, Buller & Dellavalle, 2014). Risks may arise through provision of inaccurate information, poor privacy, and potential lack of therapeutic benefits (Boudreaux et al, 2014;Buijink, Visser & Marshall, 2013).…”
Section: Disclosuresmentioning
confidence: 99%