Mobile Health Apps – Breakthrough Or Liability?

July 11, 2012
I'm trying to figure out where mobile apps fit in the delivery of health and human services. On one hand, there are the "app as breakthrough" proponents – whose view is like the recent article in Scientific American, The Real Promise of Mobile Health Apps. Author Francis Collins muses that, "...right now, the majority of users are much like me, treating their new apps as gee-whiz toys rather than as valuable tools for improving their health...the real potential of mHealth lies with much more committed users, such as the children with type 1 diabetes who . . .