A popular smoking cessation app in the iTunes app store
Popular smoking cessation smartphone apps in the iTunes App Store and Google Play store still do not include many of the guidelines outlined by the US Public Health Service’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, according to an article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Dr. Robert Kaplan
The research community appears to be relishing the challenge of producing enough scientific evidence to prove or disprove the efficacy of mobile health technologies while also remaining open to new methods of evaluation that can keep pace with rapid innovation.
"The literature has really mushroomed in the last couple of years," Robert M. Kaplan, director of the Office of...
When it comes to medical apps, it’s not that patients want their apps to play more like Angry Birds; it's that they want them to be so easy and efficient to use, that they'll have more time to play Angry Birds.
In her essay in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine supplement “Cyberinfrastructure for Consumer Health,” Dr. Jessie Gruman makes four observations about health information...
Of the 47 smoking cessation applications available to iPhone users back in June 2009, few if any adhered to the US Public Health Service's 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine this month concluded.
"Apps identified for smoking cessation were found to have low levels of adherence to key...
