BACKGROUND Physical activity participation is an important behavior for modifying lifestyle-related disease risk. Mobile health apps for chronic disease management and prevention are being developed at a rapid rate. However, it is unclear whether these apps are evidence-based. Current public health recommendations for physical activity participation for adults highlight the importance of engagi...

Patients use various sources to obtain information on pharmaceutical drugs. Mobile health care applications (apps) providing drug information to users are increasingly made available and of rising importance for the health care domain. However, apps usually offer functionality that only medical professionals or vendors consider useful for patients, although their considerations are not likely t...

Many countries today have “country-centric mobile apps” which are mobile apps that are primarily used by residents of a specific country. Many of these country-centric apps also include a locationbased service which takes advantage of the smartphone’s API access to the smartphone’s current GPS location. In this paper, we investigate how such country-centric apps with location-based services can...

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BACKGROUND Breast cancer is one of the leading contributors to preventable illness and death among women. Although mobile phone apps provide unprecedented opportunity to engage women along the cancer continuum, little is known about the availability, content, and usability of breast cancer mobile phone apps. OBJECTIVE This study analyzed the content and adherence to literate design standards ...

Background: The need for convenient ways to access technology is expanding. A plethora of apps now exist to make daily life easier for the common person. The medical field has begun to integrate apps into the diagnostic tool set in order to improve human medicine. This form of personal care not only makes patient visits easier for both patient and practitioner because tests and check ups are pe...

BACKGROUND The mobile technology era has ushered in the use of mobile phone apps for behavioral intervention for at-risk drinkers. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to review recent research relevant to mobile phone apps that can be used for behavioral intervention for at-risk drinkers in Australia. METHODS The inclusion criteria for this review were articles published in peer-reviewed journals f...

This paper examines the effect of the freemium strategy on Google Play, an online marketplace for Android mobile apps. By analyzing a large panel dataset consisting of 1,597 ranked mobile apps, we found that the freemium strategy is positively associated with increased sales volume and revenue of the paid apps. Higher sales rank and review rating of the free version of a mobile app both lead to...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health problem and is the leading killer due to a single infectious disease. Mobile health (mHealth)-based tools such as smartphone apps have been suggested as tools to support TB control efforts (eg, identification, contact tracing, case management including patient support). OBJECTIVE The purpose of this review was to identify and assess t...

Background. Mobile medical software applications (apps) are used for clinical decision-making at the point of care. Objectives. To determine (1) the usage, reliability, and popularity of mobile medical apps and (2) medical students' perceptions of app usage effect on the quality of patient-provider interaction in healthcare settings. Methods. An anonymous web-based survey was distributed to med...