Its over 9000

As of today, there are more than 100000 and rising health related apps out there in the market and with the current focus of health related function on smartphones or smart-watch, it is safe to say as Charlotte tucker author of The Nation’s Health puts it nicely:

“Once the domain of games and social media, smartphone and tablet applications, or apps for short, have come a long way in recent years, particularly in the field of health.”

In September 2011, 17% of smartphone owners used their phone to look for health or medication information online. And in September, 2012 this figure grow up to 31% and rising. The age of mobile health app are upon us and this will definitely change the face of healthcare in the coming years as health care is going to be more patient-centered and delivered over mobile devices. As Leslie Saxon, M.D., professor of clinical medicine and director of the Center for Body Computing at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine put its: ” I think that’s really going to move the needle on health care outcomes and satisfaction.”

There are all sort of health related apps out there ranging from fitness, diet, patient monitoring and compliance, remote diagnostic, health surveillance, there’s even an app for pregnancy and the list goes on. However with over 100000 health related app out there, which health related app are helpful to users? Looked no further as this blog will provide all the information you need in downloading the best health related apps out there.

For more information

http://coolhealthinfographics.com/post/54095949063/rising-popularity-of-mobile-health-apps

http://thenationshealth.aphapublications.org/content/41/8/1.3.full

https://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporter/october2012/308516/health-care-apps.html

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What the heck is an App?

In January 2011, the American Dialect Society named “app” the word of the year for 2010.  But what the heck are they? But are those things sitting on our phones?

The word app is a noun, and it’s short for “application” which refers to any piece of software that works on a software system. The idea of an apps is that they harness the power of your machine and direct it to perform jobs that they are program for. For example, Microsoft Word is a desktop application that runs on either Windows or Mac OSX and its function is to process words.

In addition, web application allows application to be run directly through a web browser which itself is a desktop application. Eg. Google drive is a web application that runs via Chrome.

long before iphones, you probably have run application from a mobile phone such as notepad, calendar, web browser etc. These are mobile phone application which run on a less powerful system than those on your computer, they’re smaller and requires less resource to operates. As a result, mobile app often are stripped down version of their desktop or web application.

In 2008, Apple launched their online store where you can buy all sorts of these mobile phone applications specifically designed to run on the iPhone or iPad. They juiced it up a bit by referring to them as “apps” and the rest is history. As smartphone becomes more sophisticated, so as the apps and with over a MILLION apps out there in the market, accessing to information is just a tap away.

For more information

“App” voted 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society (UPDATED)