Mobile apps are changing healthcare by allowing custom treatment, quick access to medical research, and enabling physicians to access patient information remotely. The market for mobile healthcare apps is estimated to be worth $400 million by 2016, and over 500 million users will have health apps by 2015. Mobile apps help manage health, promote wellness, and provide medical information. The FDA regulates apps that pose health risks but allows those for self-management, health tracking, and accessing health information. New apps use voice analysis to detect mood changes in bipolar patients and help reduce risky drinking in alcoholics.

1. How Mobile
Applications are
Changing Healthcare
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2. The widespread adoption and use of mobile technologies is opening up new and
innovative ways to improve health and health care delivery. Medical mobile
applications are expanding the capability of healthcare providers to customize
treatment for patients. Over the last few years, several mobile apps have been
developed that offer quick access to evidence-based medical research from
mobile devices. Healthcare applications are making it possible for physicians to
view x-rays, review clinical notes, track health progress and access information to
any medical condition through major mobile platforms such as iPhone, Android,
Blackberry, and Windows.
It is estimated that the market for mobile healthcare apps will be worth $400
million by 2016. Moreover, according to the FDA:
 500 million smart phone users worldwide will be using a health care
application by 2015
 By 2018, 50 percent of the more than 3.4 billion smart phone and tablet
users will have downloaded mobile health applications. These users include
health care professionals, consumers, and patients.
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3. Mobile apps also help people manage their own health and wellness, promote
healthy living, and gain access to useful information when and where they need
it. The FDA regulates mobile apps that can pose a greater risk to patients, but
exercises enforcement discretion in the case of mobile medical apps that
 Help patients/users self-manage their disease or condition without providing
specific treatment suggestions;
 Provide patients with simple tools to organize and track their health
information;
 Provide easy access to information related to health conditions or
treatments;
 Help patients document, show or communicate potential medical conditions to
health care providers;
 Automate simple tasks for health care providers; or
 Enable patients or providers to interact with Personal Health Records (PHR) or
Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems.
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4. Mobile Medical Applications – Some Latest Developments
App detects mood swings via voice analysis in people with bipolar
disorder:
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a Smartphone app
that monitors subtle qualities of a person's voice during everyday phone
conversations. It shows promise for detecting early signs of mood changes in
people with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder that causes
unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-
day tasks.
The app runs in the background on an Android smart phone and automatically
monitors the patients' voice patterns during calls. Only the patient's side of
everyday phone calls is recorded - and the recordings themselves are encrypted
and kept off-limits to the research team. While the app still needs much testing
before widespread use, early results from a small group of patients show its
potential to monitor moods while protecting privacy.
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5. A-CHESS app helping people overcome alcoholism
The recent report of a new smartphone app offers hope for alcoholics. Clinical
trials at the University of Wisconsin have found that a new smartphone app called
A-CHESS may help alcoholics overcome their addiction. Designed to deal with
addiction, the app helped recovering alcoholics stay sober or reduce their risky
drinking.
The clinical trial involved about 350 participants who successfully completed
treatment for alcoholism in five residential programs -- three in the Midwest and
two in the northeastern United States. It was found that the participants who
used the A-CHESS app had nearly a 65 percent chance of abstaining from
drinking in the year after their release from a treatment center, compared to
those who left the center without using the app.
By the end of the year, about 52 percent of patients using A-CHESS had
remained consistently alcohol-free, compared with about 40 percent of patients
who received conventional forms of support.
ALCOHOLISM
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6. Medical mobile applications development services are available to provide
physicians with important healthcare data and improve patient care. It is also
important that they have mobile medical websites to improve their visibility on
mobile devices. A mobile web design company can help with this. Professional
companies provide their medical clients with websites that are easily navigable,
quick loading and SEO-friendly, and optimized for viewing on mobile devices.
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