pharmaphorum August 6, 2021
There was a dramatic increase in the launch of health-related mobile applications last year, taking the total number on offer in app stories to 350,000 – and while average quality is currently “middling” it is on the rise, according to a report from IQVIA.
The pandemic contributed to another 90,000 apps being introduced in 2020 – an average of 250 per day – and this coupled with rising number and functionality of wearable devices “provides evidence of digital health’s accelerating innovation,” according to the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science’s 2021 trends report.
Many of the new apps being launched are geared towards consumers and are intended for general wellness or fitness, but there is an increasing trend towards tools...
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