21% Of Smartphone Owners With One Or More Chronic Conditions Have Software Applications To Monitor Health

About one-fifth (21%) of smartphone owners diagnosed with one or more chronic health conditions use a software application on their smartphone to track their health. About 19% of all smartphone owners have at least one health-related application installed on the device. About 29% of smartphone owners who experienced a significant health change during the past 12 months have a health-related application on the phone. The findings were reported in “Mobile Health 2012” by Susannah Fox and Maeve Duggan of the Pew Internet Project, which is a project of the Pew Research Center. The researchers analyzed responses to . . .