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Survey: Smart Phone Owners Want Apps to Provide Medical Data

Among individuals interested in using health-related smart phone applications, 91.1% say they would want an app that allows them to gain information about health care, according to a survey by the Consumer Health Information Corp., MobiHealthNews reports (Dolan, MobiHealthNews, 4/26).

CHIC distributed the online survey to businesses and universities and received 395 responses (CHIC release, 4/25).

Key Findings

The survey found that about 58% of respondents would like to manage a health issue using an app and that about 49% wanted to track their own health with an app.

The survey also found that:

  • About 42% of respondents wanted to use an app to find information on drugs (MobiHealthNews, 4/26);
  • About 40% of respondents were willing to use a health app several times a day; and
  • About 27% of respondents wanted to use an app to find information on a disease.

The study also found that the majority of consumers preferred receiving reminders on health-related tasks through their mobile devices, rather than through phone calls, drug vials or e-mail messages. Among survey respondents:

  • 41.1% would prefer to receive a health-related task reminder through text messages;
  • 20.3% would prefer to receive a health-related task reminder through apps; and
  • 19.5% would prefer to receive a health-related task reminder through phone alarms (CHIC release, 4/25).

Source: iHealthBeat

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