At the Healthcare Unbound conference in San Diego this week, Parks Associates Director of Health & Mobile Research Harry Wang presented topline findings from the firm's recently published report: Uptake of Personal Health Tools & Services. Parks surveyed 1,948 U.S. "Internet heads of household" during the second and third weeks of June 2010.

The most interesting slide from Wang's presentation gauged the respondents' interest level in various types of mobile health app-enabled services. Some 30 percent of those surveyed were interested in "an app that alerts you when a loved one needs help or attention." Sounds like Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) is the frontrunner. (Jitterbug's plans to launch such an application and service later this year may bode well then.)

Other apps pitched by Parks include calories burned, fat burn rate, vital sign monitoring, health records access and more. Each was met with varying interest:

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