Mobile Healthcare Industry Steadily Growing

Mobile healthcare has increased exponentially, according to a recent report by Global Information, which announced that the smartphone application market for mobile healthcare "increased by a factor of 7 to reach $718 million in 2011."

Two issues have driven the growth, according to GII. First is the increase in smartphone users. Nevertheless as important, or moreover, the number of mHealth applications has doubled, reports the company’s innovation2guidance's new Mobile Health Market Report 2011-2016.

The advent of the ‘app economy’ to this new

GII attributes the "advent of the ‘app economy’ to this new and exciting way to interactively communicate with doctors, patients, and the marketplace itself. The company notes that "this ‘Smartphone Applications Market Phenomena’" has proliferated in many industries and healthcare is just one of the many now climbing on the bandwagon, thanks to all the new apps to help keep people healthy.

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