21% Of Adults Use SmartPhone Apps Or Other Tech To Monitor Health

About 70% of adults in the United States track their health or that of a loved one, but only 21% are doing so via a smartphone application or another form of technology. The remainder tracks the data informally, with 34% using a paper notebook or journal, and 49% relying on memory. There are more than 234 million adults over age 18 according to the 2010 United States Census. At the 70% health tracking prevalence rate, about 163 million are doing so, and about 34 million of them are tracking with a smartphone application or another form of technology. The finding . . .