500m Using Mobile Health Apps by 2015

It's hard to imagine that 500 million people will be using mobile health apps on their smartphones by the year 2015. That's what research2guidance is reporting in one of their latest reports:

Smartphone applications will become the killer applications for mobile health solutions.

Although the potential benefits of mHealth solutions have been widely discussed for over a decade, the market never emerged from the trial phase. Smartphone applications will enable the mHealth industry to successfully reach out to 500m of a total 1.4bn smartphone users in 2015 the new “Global Mobile Health Market Report 2010-2015” by research2guidance says.

Read more at the  research2guidance website.