By 2015, 500 Million Will Use Mobile Health Applications

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News By 2015, nearly 500 million people—one-third of the 1.4 billion projected global smartphone users—will use a mobile health (mHealth) application. Between 2010 and 2015, mHealth users will increase by 66% annually. Most market growth will be due to the emergence of consumer health electronics devices, such as portable ECG machines, blood pressure monitors, and weight scales. Seventy-six percent of revenue from the mHealth application market will come from related services and products, such as remote monitoring sensors. In March 2010, analysts with The Nielsen Company said . . .