Évaluation des applications dans le champ de la santé mobile (mHealth) (2024)

FAQs

What is mobile health application? ›

The most common application of mHealth is the use of mobile devices to educate consumers about preventive healthcare services. However, mHealth is also used for disease surveillance, treatment support, epidemic outbreak tracking and chronic disease management.

Health apps can reduce overall health costs — both for patients and providers. There are over 350,000 health apps now available, with about 250 new apps released every day. In fact, health management apps accounted for 47% of all apps in 2021—a booming increase from 28% in 2015. These are significant numbers.

They can offer various functions, such as tracking symptoms, providing information, delivering reminders, facilitating communication, or enabling self-care. However, they also pose some potential risks, such as privacy breaches, data misuse, inaccurate or misleading information, or adverse effects on health outcomes.

Increased Access to Care: By going to the patient's community, mobile health clinics can reach the underserved, homeless, elderly, and disabled populations who may have limited access to traditional healthcare facilities.

The World Health Organization says we can think of it as “medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices.” In other words, mobile health technology is the use of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices to deliver health care and preventive health services.

Mobile technology has made it easier than ever to bring the care to the patient, rather than bring the patient to the care. Whether it's physically seeing the patient in their own environment or employing telemedicine, the technology now exists to meet healthcare consumers wherever it's convenient for them.

MEDITECH MHealth is the mobile version of MEDITECH's Patient and Consumer Health Portal. It was designed to provide healthcare professionals and patients with access to essential healthcare information and tools through mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Two clusters of mental health apps users were identified using k-prototypes clustering: help-seeking and maintenance users and three clusters of physical health apps users were identified: happy conscious occasional, happy neurotic occasional, and unhappy neurotic frequent users.

Revenue from health apps reached $3.4 billion in 2023, with total revenue increasing rapidly since the pandemic.

Forty-seven percent and 40 percent of respondents aged 18 to 34 used health apps and wearables, respectively, compared to 30 percent and 25 percent of adults over 65. Of those who said they used health apps and wearables, most use them daily.

Do all iphones have health app? ›

The app is available on iPhone and iPod Touch devices running iOS 8 or later, and on iPads running iPadOS 17 or later. The application holds health data such as blood pressure measurement and glucose levels, but also holds physical tracking data such as step counts.

The Health app gathers health data from your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and apps that you already use, so you can view all your progress in one convenient place. Health automatically counts your steps, walking, and running distances. And, if you have an Apple Watch, it automatically tracks your Activity data.

An app for smart brightness and sensor management on Android

Device Health Services can learn about your usage.

The Device Health Application is a small piece of software that runs on Windows and Mac workstations. Device Health is a process of analysing a device to determine whether it meets approved security requirements and is thereby trusted and authorised to do something, for example accessing University digital resources.

Health Platform API is an Android API that provides developers with a single interface for reading, writing, and sharing a user's historic health, wellness, and fitness data. With Health Platform, users have control of their data. Users control which apps have read or write access to different types of data.