mHealth Trends: More Behavioral Health Apps But Few For Disabling Chronic Conditions
Circle Connections: Tech Updates The growth of mobile health apps for consumers documented in the report by IMS Institute of Healthcare Informatics also includes behavioral health apps. The research institute assembled a helpful breakdown of the more than 18,000 consumer facing mobile health apps. It identified 558 mental health apps. The report also provides an outlook on the future of mobile health technology and has some ideas about the role of apps. There are about 196 autism apps, 96 for anxiety and 58 for depression. One example of an autism app is AutisMate, a communication tool that uses images . . .