The Mobile Health Revolution?

Smartphone use in Paediatric Practice: a national survey

“…1 Close to 100, 000 apps are now available to assist health care professionals and the number of mHealth apps and its users is almost doubling year on year. 2,3 It is estimated that by 2015 smartphone users worldwide will number more than 500 million and by 2018 there could be 1.7 billion mHealth users worldwide. 1,4 There are currently thousands of apps available for pediatricians and they are quickly becoming popular clinical tools, allowing instant, on-the-go access to textbooks, journals and offer resources such as medical calculators and drug formularies.…”

FDA Regulation of Mobile Health Technologies

“…8 The number of mHealth apps, downloads, and users almost doubles every year. 9 Some observers predict that by 2018 there could be 1.7 billion mHealth users worldwide. 8 Thus, mHealth technologies could have a profound effect on patient care.…”

Mobile health (mHealth) technologies

“…4). Researchers at the Oxford University and at South African University have worked together to develop an app that works as mobile stethoscope or i-stethoscope [25]. This app lets patients record their own heartbeat and send this audio recording to their doctor.…”

“…According to one estimate [30] there are over 100,000 apps available as of July 2014 related to mHealth. The downloading of such apps is doubling every year [25]. It is predicted that in 3 more years the number of mHealth users could reach to 1.7 billion globally.…”