Mobile health apps are set to change the way individuals can look after their health, doctors can diagnose and monitor patients, and medical research can collect data and develop their research. As health apps go from ‘dumb’, i.e. use only aggregated or limited personal data to intelligent using personalised health records and genetic data, a revolution may be underway.
What is changing?
Mobile health apps are growing fast. How fast varies according to different reports: one forecasts the number of health app downloads in 2012 at 44 million; another at 600 million. Either way, the continued spread of smartphones and adaptors that either extend them or interact with them is driving that growth. There are currently about 9000 health apps on the iPhone, rising to about 13,000 in 2012. Elsewhere, estimates put the total number of health apps at 17,000.
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