MobiHealth News November 6, 2019
John Crawford

Since the introduction of the first smartphones, we have seen enormous growth in the availability of applications connected with managing our health. According to ORCHA, a UK-based organisation which reviews and evaluates health apps, there are currently over 327,000 such platforms available to download.

On their website, ORCHA assert that just 43 apps are responsible for more than 83% of all health app downloads, and that over 80% of health apps don’t get more than 5,000 downloads. These numbers confirm that we are still far from market maturity, with much experimentation going on, and a surprisingly small proportion of apps achieving significant scale. Even patients managing long-term conditions such as diabetes and COPD, which one might think would benefit from...

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