Pharma Mobile Health App List
We’ve all heard the amazing number of mobile health apps that are out there. I don’t believe anyone really knows the exact number, but no doubt it’s in the 10′s of thousands and might be reaching into the 100′s of thousands of mobile health applications.
I certainly knew that pharma was doing a lot of work in the mobile health application space as well. However, I didn’t really realize the number of pharma sponsored mobile apps that were out there until I saw this list on the Dose of Digital website. If my quick count is accurate, that’s over 200 pharma mobile health apps.
It’s hard to even summarize all of the different type of pharma apps that are available. Of course, it’s one thing to put out a mobile health app and it’s another thing to get people to actually use it. I wonder how much usage there is across the pharma apps.
How do people feel about pharma sponsored applications? Are they a good thing for healthcare or a bad thing? Is there a reason you should or shouldn’t use them?
I wrote previously about the Janssen created Care4Today app. I suggested my wife try it out after she complained to me about forgetting to take her pill and get her refill. I think the app could really benefit my wife and I don’t really care who created it.
It’s very clear to me that much of what we do online will need to work well on a mobile device. I’ll be interested to see how pharma continues to work more and more on reaching you on your mobile device.
