The IMS institute for Healthcare has published a report , Patient Adoption of mHealth , which compares mHealth apps with a systematic survey of the mobile market several decades ago . The mobile apps may have evolved over the past two years , however their popularity has n't changed , with 36 apps accounting for almost half of all downloads . Although apps are becoming more sophisticated and have the potential to deepen the level of interaction with consumers , 40 % of them have less than 5,000 downloads .
The IMS Institute for Healthcare has published a report, Patient Adoption of mHealth, which compares mHealth apps with a published snapshot of the mHealth market two years ago. The mHealth apps may have evolved over the past two years, however their popularity hasn't changed, with 36 apps accounting for almost half of all downloads. Although apps are becoming more sophisticated and have the potential to deepen the level of interaction with consumers, 40% of them have less than 5,000 downloads.