Medical Xpress April 15, 2025
Smartphones are changing the way people manage their health—but when it comes to heart disease in India, app stores are lagging far behind. Despite heart disease being the country’s leading cause of death, accounting for more than 28% of all fatalities, a new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research shows that only a tiny fraction of more than 200,000 health-related apps available in India actually addresses this urgent health issue.
The research, conducted at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences (KL Krems), involved a large-scale analysis of app store data from Apple and Google using natural language processing and clustering techniques. It showed that very few health apps offer content in Indian languages, making them inaccessible to...
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