Number of mHealth apps
In early days 2013, mHealth apps existed. In the beginning year of 2012-13, 3.8 billion dollar actual value of mobile apps for the mHealth app.
The value of mHealth has raised with 10.97 billion dollars in the year of 2014. It has been crossing the targeted amount of downloads and revenues in dollars.
In the year of 2015, the
mHealth mobile app reached 14.51 billion dollars, wherein 2016, the mHealth apps for mobile users increased in numbers where the value of mHealth apps was 19.19 billion dollars.
In the recent end of 2017, the valuable amount has reached 25.39 billion dollars in the mHealth app market.
And the prediction for the future 2018-2020, the mHealth app marketplace value will be reached at 58.8 billion dollars.
For 2017 the mHealth market is forecast to be valued at around 25.39 billion U.S. dollars. The number of mHealth apps downloaded worldwide was expected to reach a high in 2016, with an estimated 3.2 billion downloads, almost double the number of downloads in 2013.
mHealth app for mobile users is an amazing idea implemented by various business users for generating revenue and providing benefits to needy one. Overall the mHealth applications had made huge numbers of downloads, and owners gained millions of revenue.
The amount of 3.7 billion health apps downloaded in 2017. And among all the categories of mobile apps including tour-travel, news-magazine, shopping, music, and etc. mHealth and Fitness apps were showing 52% downloads as compared to other apps.
Number of downloads in 2017
Health and fitness app industry covered the market value by downloading a huge number of mHealth apps from Google Play Store and App Store.
- Fitness timer app – 5 million downloads
- Weight loss app – 10 million
- Women health app – 70 million
- Sleep and Meditation app- 10 million
mHealth app is doctor’s choice too!
More than 90% doctors believe that mHealth mobile apps can improve present status of health and care.
85% doctors use smartphones and mobile apps in their profession.
The support from the doctors and encourage the technology for reducing numbers of patients to visit clinic and hospitals.
James
Tauseef Anwar, you have shared a great post here. While technology has helped much in improvising health through health apps, there is still a long way to go before people are more familiarised with these apps and features. Thank you for sharing this fabulous blog and imparting knowledge regarding present trends.