mHealthApps: A Repository and Database of Mobile Health Apps

JMIR MHealth and UHealth
Wenlong Xu, Yin Liu

Abstract

The market of mobile health (mHealth) apps has rapidly evolved in the past decade. With more than 100,000 mHealth apps currently available, there is no centralized resource that collects information on these health-related apps for researchers in this field to effectively evaluate the strength and weakness of these apps. The objective of this study was to create a centralized mHealth app repository. We expect the analysis of information in this repository to provide insights for future mHealth research developments. We focused on apps from the two most established app stores, the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. We extracted detailed information of each health-related app from these two app stores via our python crawling program, and then stored the information in both a user-friendly array format and a standard JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. We have developed a centralized resource that provides detailed information of more than 60,000 health-related apps from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. Using this information resource, we analyzed thousands of apps systematically and provide an overview of the trends for mHealth apps. This unique database allows the meta-analysis of health-related apps ...Continue Reading

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Software Mentioned

HyperText Markup Language
Google Play
GooglePlay
iTunes
iTunes Search
MEDCIAL
BlackBerry World
mHealthApps
AppStore
Google Play Search API

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